Windows 10 Install

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WTF are Microsoft playing at ?

Having carried out a couple of Windows 10 upgrades and a complete fresh install of W10 on my own PC from a USB memory stick (with just a bit of hassle), Ive just arrived at a friend's house for a cup of tea and decided I'd upgrade his machine. I was going to use my USB drive, but he pointed out that the upgrade had already downloaded and was asking for permission to install. I thought it would be a good idea to see how the "built in" install behaves.

15 minutes later, and it's still "Working on it". with no progress indication, just the rotating dots and intemittent flickering of the disk activity LED.

Is it not beyiond the technical capability of those clever bods at Miscrosoft to give us at least a bit of an idea of how far the install has proceeded ? We're sitting here wondering if anyone really is "Working on it" or they`ve nipped down the local for a crafty couple of pints.

It's now closer to 20 minutes since I started the process, and I'm wondering if the overclocked CPU and SSD that I recently installed for him were worth the money.
 
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My machine did it about 20 mins from Win 7, now upgrading another from Win 8.1 but it needs to download about 5gb for Windows 10 before installing.
 
Given up on it now (it said something about expecting a 10 second prep of your device before a license agreement), nearly 30 minutes later and it was still "Working on it".

I'm now creating a new USB stick install. I had trouble with a previous install not accepting a legit Windows 8.1 key, as there was an issue with the media creation tool that was released on 29th July.

And Microsoft wonder why they're losing ground to Apple.
 
Is this where you pop in the Windows 7 (or 8) licence code during the W10 Installation? (if you've booted from the USB?)

If so it won't work. The keycode is a Windows 7 or 8 code not a W10 code. It only becomes a W10 code when you've installed W10 over W7 or 8. Then you can use it to do a full clean install with your USB or ISO burnt to DVD.

I burnt the appropriate W10 ISO to DVD, popped it into my DVD drive whilst running W7 and it installed perfectly on my destop machine.

I would also suggest allowing the installation routine to download the latest patches during installation rather than skipping them. Tried skipping on my Dads laptop and it seemed to hang, it then rewound back to W7. Downloading the patches during the installation seemed to allow it to work ok.
 
Tried creating the USB install media again, and finally got it to work.

A few resets due to blank screens and no disk activity, but all seems well now (after removing Easus Todo Backup, which seems to have issues with W10 until re-installed). Seems that the DPI scaling is poor if you increase it, so XPE Windows 10 DPI Fix needs to be installed.
 
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