Clean Win7 to update to Win10 ... what's needed?

memyselfandi

memyselfandi

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Got a box running Win7 still (retail box, home premium) which doesn't seem to want to upgrade to Win10, gives 1900101-0x20017 error when I try (both with downloaded and usb installs.

It's quite an old install and could do with a rebuild anyway. So what's the minimum amount of Win7 reinstall and patch I need to do to get to a state where I can try a win10 upgrade again?
 
If you have a legitimate Windows 7 serial number download the "Windows 10 Media Creation Tool" from the Microsoft website and burn the ISO to disk, with any ISO post 2015 November patch you can put a Windows 7 serial into the installer and it'll activate the correct version for you. You don't need to do an "upgrade" install via this method to get the digital entitlement on the Windows 7 key, it'll just do that during the installer.
 
Unfortunately the media creation tool is appearing to be allusive at the moment ... the top of linked page indicates that it can be got from further down the page ... and there is no apparent mention of it ...
 
memyselfandi said:
Unfortunately the media creation tool is appearing to be allusive at the moment ... the top of linked page indicates that it can be got from further down the page ... and there is no apparent mention of it ...
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The link KIA posted is correct.

Click the blue "download tool now" button.

Run that file and choose "create installation media for another PC"

Follow the instructions to put it on a USB stick.
That's how I did it as I'm using my windows7 key.

The USB stick will get erased so dont do what I did and forget to backup whats on the stick (I lost a few documents I didn't backup)
 
I don't have a blue download tool button though, the _only_ blue button I have is the one below the drop box for selecting the ISO version.

I think I have got around it now by burning the ISO to a DVD rather than going with a USB stick which I would have preferred.
 
Looks like its all moot anyway ... whilst the Windows 10 installer (before starting) said the system was ok and supported from within Win7 but the actual installion off DVD doesn't seem to work which I think is due to the AMD SATA/AHCI driver.

- on boot it prompts for a driver so it can see the disk
- giving it the Win7 64bit driver seems to let it install (the only Win10 drivers I can find are packaged up within a windows installer)
- at the end of the install the system reboots ... trys to start and after a while fails being unable to find the boot device.

:(
 
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memyselfandi said:
Looks like its all moot anyway ... whilst the Windows 10 installer (before starting) said the system was ok and supported from within Win7 but the actual installion off DVD doesn't seem to work which I think is due to the AMD SATA/AHCI driver.

- on boot it prompts for a driver so it can see the disk
- giving it the Win7 64bit driver seems to let it install (the only Win10 drivers I can find are packaged up within a windows installer)
- at the end of the install the system reboots ... trys to start and after a while fails being unable to find the boot device.

:(
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For reference if anyone searches on the forum ....

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H motherboard ... AMD 780G + SB700, Windows 10 install prompts for the driver as it can't see the hard disk. If you try and give it the Win7 64bit driver then the above happens.

What seems sto work, extract AMD AHCI SATA driver from amd-catalyst-15.7.1-sb-sata-ahci-win10-win8.1-win7.exe from the path \Packages\Drivers\SBDrv\SB7xx\AHCI\WB64A\ using 7zip, drop onto a USB stick and give to the Windows 10 installer when prompted.

Windows 10 then appears to install.
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