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Then you'll get the Out of teh Box Experience to setup your account and stuff, and then it will build your account, and then you are in.
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Which will tell you it wants to create a recovery partition, pick Yes, it will be your Win10 partition, and then it will do its thing, reboot, and then it will finish the install by detecting your hardware and installing drivers. Then pick your partition of Windows 7 > delete, pick your partition of Windows 7 recovery > delete, pick the now the free large partition > Next. This is important, if it is the wrong edition, it won't activate after, and a clean install needs to be redone. If you have Windows 7 Home Premium, pick Windows 10 Home (or Windows 10, I forgot how it showed), if you have Windows 7 Professional, pick Windows 10 Pro. Then pick the RIGHT edition of Windows 10 that you should get. this is for Win10 keys, don't worry, once WIn10 is installed, you can insert your WIn7 key through the Activation panel).
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Then it will ask you for product key, pick "I don't have one" (your Win7 keys wont' work here. If you don't the process will be: pick language/keyboard > Install > Custom install (the other option is to do an upgrade, which by the way, is another way to upgrade from Win7 to 10 that you can try before doing this, if you really don't want to clean install).
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If you know how to install Windows 7, then it is very similar. Once done, boot from your USB flash drive, and follow the setup. Then, use Media Creation tool with a USB flash drive and pick that you want to install Windows on another PC (even if it is the same) The easiest way to install Windows 10, and the most recommended by the community here (which is by the wya the same for every past version of Windows) is:ĭon't upgrade. You need space for downloading Windows 10. You can delete it after, if everything works and don't plan to return back to Win7) Your current Windows 7 (which will be moved in a folder called "Windows.old" once Windows 10 is installed for recovery purposes. It usually means you don't have enough space in your C:\ drive. Sadly, Microsoft is very vague with its error messages. But we will see what can be done to avoid this.īut do you know what’s up with me getting an error message saying Windows does not support this upgrade path when I select keep all files? If you fall in to the 2 points above, a clean install of Windows 10 onto the system might be the only way to get the OS. If you used a registry cleaner, then, upgrading Windows is when you see problems. If you previously had a virus on the system, that the anti-virus only removes the virus, It doesn't fix modified registry changes and files Once in Windows 10, then you install your stuff back. Remove Keyboard and Mouse software if you have any. Remove any OC or motherboard utilities installed, meaning: Speedfan, MSI Afterburner, Motherboard Overclocking tools, etc. Remove your anti-virus (don't only disable it)
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Make sure ALL drivers are fully updated, this includes: Chipset, Printer, SATA/RAID controller, Ethernet/Wireless webcam and sound chip Remove any not needed peripherals, extra HDDs, etc not important.