Windows 10

[Orcvader]

Guess I'll do that too and disconnect my other drives as a precaution.

 

[Rannoch]

My mates telling me he's upgraded and blue screen with reboots

 

[GAM8LE]

Not seeing the point in a fresh install on Win 10 tbh. It is based on Win 8.1 so I doubt doing an upgrade will cause any issues. I hope not anyway as I cannot be bothered re-installing everything. I can now guarantee I will be the one with the failed update....

Its true but I would much rather go for a completely clean install, just in case something goes wrong with drivers etc! Just my own feeling though.

I hope I can do the inbuilt factory reset option rather than need a disk, cba plugging my drive back in tonight

 

[Cuchulainn]

Installed and activated. Very smooth. Took just under 30 minutes.

 

[andy_mk3]

I don't like OS upgrades, clean install is always best for me. Plus my laptop is on the original install so I want to do a clean install without any bloatware.

 

[Danny091]

Installed and activated. Very smooth. Took just under 30 minutes.

did you do the keep nothing?

If so the next 4 hours are you swearing at the thing haha

 

[russell664]

I seem to be getting an install error Anyone else getting this?

 

[MOOGLEYS]

Installed and activated. Very smooth. Took just under 30 minutes.

Is Scotland on a different time zone now...

 

[slipd]

Am I missing something here, do you get a new key with this or what And will said key supersede your Windows 7/8 key?

 

[this_is_gav]

Is the "wuauclt.exe /updatenow" command supposed to start the download to the $Windows.~BT folder? If that's the case it isn't working here

It just triggers the usual check for Windows Updates. It's been around for donkey's years. If you are deemed to be in the first batch then it should trigger your download, but otherwise it's going to do nothing.

It's exactly the same as doing the manual check through the Control Panel.

 

[MOOGLEYS]

Its true but I would much rather go for a completely clean install, just in case something goes wrong with drivers etc! Just my own feeling though.

I hope I can do the inbuilt factory reset option rather than need a disk, cba plugging my drive back in tonight

Fair enough I upgraded using the latest insider build and had no issues at all from my Asus 8.1 install. Doing a refresh after install is pretty much as a clean install after you have deleted the Win.old folder. Hopefully it will be the same for this build.

 

[PiKe]

Am I missing something here, do you get a new key with this or what And will said key supersede your Windows 7/8 key?

When you reinstall 10 in the future, it will base your license off your hardware hash, so no key will be required.

 

[Danny091]

When you reinstall 10 in the future, it will base your license off your hardware hash, so no key will be required.

Interesting do you know how this works for VM's? Do they have a unique hash too?

 

[GAM8LE]

Installed and activated. Very smooth. Took just under 30 minutes.

Can you explain what method you used to do this? Upgrade then install? If so what media etc or simply the w10 reset?

Thanks
C

 

[Combat Fighter]

Well I'm all pre-loaded up.

Will I be able to update past midnight?

 

[russell664]

When you guys made the ISO, did you select option 1 or 2? Initially I used option 2, but going to try option 1 as my install failed every time.

 

[Digital X]

We have to make an ISO? I have no discs, and the only USB Drive I have is 8GB..

 

[Danny091]

When you guys made the ISO, did you select option 1 or 2? Initially I used option 2, but going to try option 1 as my install failed every time.

Option 1!

We have to make an ISO? I have no discs, and the only USB Drive I have is 8GB..

You can just mount the ISO in windows 8 (by clicking on it) and run the setup

 

[n111ck]

Well I'm all pre-loaded up.

Will I be able to update past midnight?

Nope midnight EST or 05:00 here...

 

[eggcup]

Nope midnight EST or 05:00 here...

How do you know this?