So, I'm trying to do the free upgrade from Win7 Ultimate to Win10 Pro via the Media Creation Tool (new version of the tool is 1809, downloaded today). It will go all the way through the process, but at the end when it tells me it will restart, I get hit with "Windows 10 Installation Failed". The Scan and Fix utility option will come up for the D: drive (recovery partition, I do believe) but when I try to run it, it refuses to even try to fix anything. I've also tried various iterations of chkdsk..and that tells me that it finds no errors or bad sectors. (Oxymoron, anyone?)
I'd thought about trying to expand the partition allocation but those options are grayed out...upon searching, the probable reason it's grayed out is because the partition file system is FAT32 which does not support such a function. Finally, upon trying to look at the allocation using Disk Management, there is no drive letter associated with that partition, yet it is visible on File Explorer as "Local Disk D:". Current partition allocation is the default 100MB. Properties shows used space as 20.1 MB, while free space shows 75.8 MB.
I would really like to not have to do a clean install of 7 simply to upgrade to 10, or (cheap me, but MS still offers the free upgrade...) buy 10 outright. I'd also obviously like for all my current programs to remain and not have to reinstall every last one of them.
Might anyone have a fix in mind or other suggestion that might work to resolve this issue? Or am I stuck doing an eventual clean install? Thank you in advance.
Pertinent system specs:
Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 on a 240GB SSD (SanDisk Plus) (12GB Free Space)
Asus M5A99FX Pro R2.0
AMD FX 8350
32GB DDR3 HyperX RAM
PowerColor Red Devil GS RX 580 8GB
I'd thought about trying to expand the partition allocation but those options are grayed out...upon searching, the probable reason it's grayed out is because the partition file system is FAT32 which does not support such a function. Finally, upon trying to look at the allocation using Disk Management, there is no drive letter associated with that partition, yet it is visible on File Explorer as "Local Disk D:". Current partition allocation is the default 100MB. Properties shows used space as 20.1 MB, while free space shows 75.8 MB.
I would really like to not have to do a clean install of 7 simply to upgrade to 10, or (cheap me, but MS still offers the free upgrade...) buy 10 outright. I'd also obviously like for all my current programs to remain and not have to reinstall every last one of them.
Might anyone have a fix in mind or other suggestion that might work to resolve this issue? Or am I stuck doing an eventual clean install? Thank you in advance.
Pertinent system specs:
Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 on a 240GB SSD (SanDisk Plus) (12GB Free Space)
Asus M5A99FX Pro R2.0
AMD FX 8350
32GB DDR3 HyperX RAM
PowerColor Red Devil GS RX 580 8GB