Windows 7 to Win10 upgrade

[Abe_FX35]

Hello all,

I am having some problems with what should be a simple thing i have done in the past. i have my windows activated Windows 7 pc, and i use the free Microsoft media creation tool to upgrade to Windows 10 for free. It downloads it does its thing, acts like its half way through installing then it "recovers old version of windows (windows 7)" and it restarts and im back on windows 7, once i log in says error we could not install windows 10 due to "Failure in second boot phase ...or during boot operation phase" something like that i cant remember word for word. What is going on ? im confused.

Thank you for any help and advice.

 

[Herc08]

Try to download Windows 7 onto a 8GB USB stick and go that route. Do you also have a valid key?

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Do you have an Antivirus installed? If so you might need to uninstall it. Might be causing the issue .

 

[Abe_FX35]

Try to download Windows 7 onto a 8GB USB stick and go that route. Do you also have a valid key?

Yes i do, it says windows is activated. I have the Windows 7 bootfiles on my USB flash drive, which is how i installed it in the first place. Usually after this just doing the windows 10 upgrade Assistance works :/

 

[Herc08]

I meant do you have a valid Windows 10 key. The free upgrade promotion has ended. I would use the Windows Media Creation Tool, create a bootbale USB disk, and install from that.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/accessibility/windows10upgrade
This path for the FREE upgrade was still working a couple of weeks ago.

 

[Herc08]

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/accessibility/windows10upgrade
This path for the FREE upgrade was still working a couple of weeks ago.

Totally forgot about that "backway" to get Windows 10. Anywho, I still recommend using the USB stick as a bootable disk and loading Windows from that, instead of inside Windows 7.