I give up!

Madscientist · 13 Aug 2015 at 17:21

Windows 10 upgrading from Win 7 pro

- after 2 hours, the installation had reached 1%

On another machine (also Win 7 Pro) failed completely.

Life's too short for this crap - I may try again in 6 months

koolpc · 13 Aug 2015 at 17:26

Did you go this route:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

It may have been a corrupt download?

AthlonXP1800 · 13 Aug 2015 at 17:29

Try disabled anti-virus and redownload and run Windows 10 setup.

I had same issue with one of my laptop, anti-virus caused progress stuck still.

4T5 · 13 Aug 2015 at 17:33

Mine Looped the first time I just killed it & restarted it, JD.

Madscientist · 13 Aug 2015 at 18:07

Thanks for the quick replies

I don't have any antivirus running on this particular computer and I've tried downloading the update twice with the same outcome - insanely slow

koolpc said:
Did you go this route:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

It may have been a corrupt download?

Can you use an ISO for the initial install? I thought your hardware profile had to be registered first on some database after the upgrade route. What product key do you use?

Skeeter · 13 Aug 2015 at 18:57

You use the ISO to perform an upgrade, which is exactly the same as using the download from Windows Update.

Madscientist · 13 Aug 2015 at 19:13

Thanks, I'll give it a go when I have a spare 10 hours or so

Deleted member 77746 · 13 Aug 2015 at 19:28

Madscientist said:
Thanks, I'll give it a go when I have a spare 10 hours or so

Shouldn't take 10 hours. A clean install + ISO method should take no longer than couple hours max once you have already downloaded the ISO.

Elevon · 13 Aug 2015 at 19:31

I gave my brother Win10 which I downloaded via Microsoft's website on to USB, he upgraded his Win7 to 10 just fine, always handy to have it on USB for a later date as well .

Elevon · 13 Aug 2015 at 19:34

I think even with slow PC and mechanical HD should not take more then three hours max (upgrade wise).

Madscientist · 14 Aug 2015 at 18:01

Well I downloaded the update tool from the link above and everything appeared to be going well - It downloaded and verified the update OK in a few minutes. Then it got to the screen with the large circle with 0% in it (copying files 2%) and 15 min later still showed 0% and copying files 2%. At that point I called it a day.

The only unusual feature of my system is that the Win 7 OS is on a PCIe SSD card of which the Win7 only takes up about 20Gb of the 250Gb available

AthlonXP1800 · 14 Aug 2015 at 21:53

Wow you install Windows 10 on 250GB PCIe SSD card? Took forever is not normal for SSD.

What SSD brand and model you got?

Your issue sound similar to other site thread with Windows 7 stuck at installation forever so it need correct driver to load during setup fixed issue. So it seem you need PCIe SSD driver to load on setup.

purplesky · 15 Aug 2015 at 10:59

Learn how to use a computer then you won't have any problems that you can't get over.

point decay · 15 Aug 2015 at 12:32

purplesky said:
Learn how to use a computer then you won't have any problems that you can't get over.

I'm sure that pearl of wisdom really helped the OP :rolleyes:

Madscientist · 15 Aug 2015 at 22:45

purplesky said:
Learn how to use a computer then you won't have any problems that you can't get over.

Hey yeah! That's a great idea, we should all learn everything to know about our computers and then we can close down the forum...

Madscientist · 15 Aug 2015 at 22:51

It was my PCIe SSD drive that was causing the problem. After transferring the image to a standard 2.5" drive, Win 10 installed at an acceptable speed. What fooled me was that I recently did a clean install of Win 7 on the PCIe drive without any problems so I wasn't expecting any with Win10.