Question How to easily upgrade from Win 7 to Win 10

[dancole]

I'm a Windows 7 Professional user and am looking to upgrade to Windows 10, however I'm struggling to find an easy solution (likely due to the fact I missed the boat by about 2 years for a free upgrade)

The Windows 10 upgrade tool throws errors and there's no easy way within Windows to upgrade.

Could someone please point me to or explain the easiest way for me to upgrade to 10 at this late stage please?

Many thanks in advance

 

[USAFRet]

With a valid Win 7 license key, that still works to activate a new Win 10 install.

The best way is a clean install of Win 10, and apply that Win 7 license.
Of course, this means you need to back up any data you do not wish to lose. Which you should have anyway, even with an inplace Upgrade.,

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[dancole]

With a valid Win 7 license key, that still works to activate a new Win 10 install.

The best way is a clean install of Win 10, and apply that Win 7 license.
Of course, this means you need to back up any data you do not wish to lose. Which you should have anyway, even with an inplace Upgrade.,

How To - Windows 10 clean install tutorial

If you are looking for the Windows 11 Clean install tutorial, you can find that here: Windows 11 Clean install tutorial (Click here) Otherwise, welcome to the Windows 10 Clean install tutorial This tutorial is intended to help you, step by step, to perform a clean install of Windows...

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Thanks for your quick reply however this is my issue, per your link step one is to download and run the tool:

The Windows 10 upgrade tool throws errors and there's no easy way within Windows to upgrade. See attached screen shot. I am unable to clean install W10 on a W7 build it seems? Has support on this upgrade path gone from Msoft?

 

[Lafong]

See attached screen shot.

I don't see a screen shot.

Are you able to boot from the installer you made at all?

 

[dancole]

I don't see a screen shot.

Are you able to boot from the installer you made at all?

Ah, sorry I embedded it but may not have worked. I hope this link works.

https://imgur.com/aM4rnhD

View: https://i.imgur.com/aM4rnhD.jpg


No I'm unable to download the 10 installer

Thanks for your continued help

 

[Lafong]

Have you tried more than 1 USB stick?

Is the stick at least 8 gb in size?

 

[Cj-tech]

Ah, sorry I embedded it but may not have worked. I hope this link works.

https://imgur.com/aM4rnhD

View: https://i.imgur.com/aM4rnhD.jpg


No I'm unable to download the 10 installer

Thanks for your continued help

Do you have another Windows computer that you can create a bootable Windows 10 drive on? If so, run the installer to make a bootable USB then use it on the computer that you are upgrading.

 

[BFG-9000]

The problem with that is if you run the installer on a UEFI computer you'll get a GPT-formatted USB stick that won't boot in a Legacy BIOS machine (or vice-versa with a MBR stick that will boot but not install).

There's a workaround that lets you download the .iso if you don't have a Mac or Chromebook. You could then either use Rufus for Windows to make a bootable USB, or else if you have a DVD burner just burn a bootable DVD (note though that the .iso has got large enough lately to require a blank double-layer DVD). Or If you don't mind an upgrade install then just mounting the .iso would work.

 

[SkyNetRising]

No I'm unable to download the 10 installer

There's something wrong with your windows 7.
Scan it for malware with Malwarebytes anti malware.
https://www.malwarebytes.com/premium

Update your windows with windows update. Install all the latest security updates.

 

[ZV505867]

Use something like Rufus to burn a downloaded ISO to a USB drive (both flash and hard drives of USB work). Then, plug it in and go into the computer you would like to upgrade. Windows will need to be running for this to properly function. Then, make sure that you still make a full backup (if you can, make an image backup) in the event that things go wrong). Open file explorer, and go into the SOURCES folder, then run setup.exe. See if you can upgrade.

 

[ZV505867]

Alternatively, you can extract the ISO or use a DVD.