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April 6, 2017 at 8:16 pm #5908
dwynnehugh
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My elderly uncle accepted the M/Soft offer of a W7 – W10 upgrade and he has been happy with it. Today his PC died – it stops before it gets to the desktop so I understand and not being greatly interested in W10 what he tells me does not mean a lot to me. In any event the PC is non-functional at the moment and I have to go and get it for repair. I do have an AOMEI backup of the system when built but that is W7. I suspect that the answer to my question will be a “No” but if I resurrect the PC to original W7, he will not be getting the opportunity to get W10 will he. He did not undertake a system backup when M/Soft installed W10.

W7 or W10 is not really an issue for him, but will his W7 license number be now accepted on a re-install of his original W7 OS?

Thanks in anticipation. Dave

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April 6, 2017 at 8:29 pm #5909
The Duke
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If he logged into his windows machine with a Microsoft email address (live /hotmail/Outlook) then it’s very simple. Once the pc is working install win 10 and as soon as he logs in with the same Microsoft account it will automatically re register.

I wouldn’t bother with win 7, and just use the ms win ten creator tool to install 10, it will be almost upto date so no kind updates etc.

Win7 wouldn’t register now, or it shouldn’t, it may well do, no one quite knows how ms police this. But just go straight to 10.
April 6, 2017 at 8:33 pm #5910
Wheels-Of-Fire
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I am pretty sure that if his PC was registered with MS for the upgrade to W10 then he can get the latest edition .
April 6, 2017 at 8:34 pm #5911
RSB
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@bdthree
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I don’t believe its tied to an account, just the machine. Not 100% sure though!

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April 6, 2017 at 8:48 pm #5912
Wheels-Of-Fire
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@grahamdearsley
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The upgrad IS tied to a PC
April 6, 2017 at 8:53 pm #5913
Wheels-Of-Fire
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@grahamdearsley
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Should be able to get the latest image with the Windows image tool and install it ?
April 6, 2017 at 9:03 pm #5914
PlaneMan
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@planeman
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Get the rig working, install W10 from the Media Creation tool. As long as it’s online it will authenticate itself.
April 6, 2017 at 9:03 pm #5915
Wheels-Of-Fire
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@grahamdearsley
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Have transfered to computer shopper from micro mart. Have a look at this weeks issue if you have.
April 6, 2017 at 9:09 pm #5916
Wheels-Of-Fire
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@grahamdearsley
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Thats the one. Media creationtool ?
April 6, 2017 at 9:44 pm #5917
Richard
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@sawboman
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Yes I have done it a couple of times when disks have died or some other issue got in the way. I just whacked the latest 10 on the machine and it still spent the next few days updating everything, but it registered fine. I have never had an MS account on any of the machines, I saw no use for it so I did not create one for any of the five devices I have processed.
April 7, 2017 at 12:03 am #5918
Dave Rice
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As the guys have said, reinstall W10 using the media creation tool.

It will magically authorize even if you need to use a totally fresh HDD, just don’t ask me how but I’ve done it a few times.
April 7, 2017 at 12:53 am #5919
dwynnehugh
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Thanks lads, have downloaded the MC Tool for installing W10 on another PC and saved it. If I now run that on my W7 PC will the tool allow me to create a bootable USB/DVD to use on the faulty machine – I don’t want to run it on mine and suddenly find I’ve got W10 on mine?

Silly question perhaps – but better safe than ….. !! 😥 😥 😥

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April 7, 2017 at 5:06 am #5920
PlaneMan
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@planeman
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Yes. That’s it exactly.
April 7, 2017 at 3:24 pm #5928
Wheels-Of-Fire
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@grahamdearsley
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<p style=”text-align: left;”>Run the tool and get W10 ms will not let you stay as you are</p>
April 7, 2017 at 3:54 pm #5930
Richard
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You can either create a USB bootable key, with the tool or do an ‘upgrade’ there and then. If you down load the tool ‘for another machine’ you can create the key for either 32 bit or 64, or at least you could last time I looked. I really ought to make an updated key for myself in case I need to get working on my wife’s computer.

I have never heard of a ‘forced’ update right away using that system.
April 7, 2017 at 4:18 pm #5931
Ed P
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@edps
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If you want to skip a lot of updating you can jump the install straight to the developer version that will be released next week.

Ars has the details.

I independently tested this before seeing it in Ars as I had a ‘stuck’ Insider version. Often these can be a real pain to unstick, but the upgrade worked like a dream with nothing lost including the 32bit program suites I have installed for test reasons e.g. Windows Office 2007 etc.
April 7, 2017 at 6:23 pm #5938
Dave Rice
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@ricedg
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I did the Creators update last night, went fine.
April 9, 2017 at 4:42 pm #6032
Boris
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Just did the laptop (as a test) to 1703 (15603.0) using an ISO, and it all went well.

A further Cumulative Update then took it to 1703 (15603.13)

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April 10, 2017 at 1:28 am #6046
Tippon
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dwynnehugh wrote:

My elderly uncle accepted the M/Soft offer of a W7 – W10 upgrade and he has been happy with it. Today his PC died – it stops before it gets to the desktop so I understand

My PC has just done the same thing. Startup Repair goes through the motions and comes back with an error along the lines of ‘Startup Repair is not compatible with this version of Windows’ :wacko:

None of the usual options do anything, and as I had just finished copying photos from the camera, I don’t really want to use an old backup yet. My pen drive with Ubuntu won’t mount the drives either, as Windows has flagged them as dirty :scratch:
April 10, 2017 at 7:33 am #6047
Dave Rice
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Has it actually stopped?

My workshop PC update seemed to go OK, but on a reboot after the 4 blue squares the monitor went out of range. Luckily I have TightVNC installed on everything so from another PC I remoted to it. The resolution now only went to 1600 x 1200 and not 1920 x 1080 and it had set that, which the monitor couldn’t cope with (I’ve had these issues before with this KVM switch).

So I downloaded the latest drivers from AMD which let me create a custom resolution.
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