| Windows 7-10 09:02 - Jan 15 with 1819 views | 2Thomas2Bowles |
You bastards
Twice failed to upgrade  | |
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| Windows 7-10 on 09:37 - Jan 15 with 1765 views | ozexile |
Oh a computer thread excellent. I'm in the market for a new laptop. Roughly $700 about £400. Anyone have any advice on what to buy? TIA. | | | |
| Windows 7-10 on 09:57 - Jan 15 with 1732 views | 2Thomas2Bowles |
Don't know what you need it for but if it's a workhorse you want to get something with Intel® Core™ i5 or above, as for brand whatever you like. | |
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| Windows 7-10 on 10:47 - Jan 15 with 1692 views | Metallica_Hoop |
Just bought a 16GB Ram Alienware Aurora as my 6 year old windows 7 Alienware was struggling. (I'll still use it for music conversion if Microsoft dont stealth kill it)
Oh my word.
It's like dumping an ageing Gillian Anderson for Therica Wilson-Read.
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| Windows 7-10 on 10:48 - Jan 15 with 1690 views | peejaybee |
Lenovo are quite good. | |
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| Windows 7-10 on 11:18 - Jan 15 with 1653 views | danehoop |
Their business machines are, but been much less impressed with their home use ones. My wifes HP thrashes my newer Lenovo model, even though mine is a year newer with slightly higher specs. And the charge held by the battery is really poor. My work Think Pad though is a great little machine. | |
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| Windows 7-10 on 11:50 - Jan 15 with 1608 views | Toast_R |
Sounds like your Hard drive is fooked if it won't install. Go and buy an SSD for your operating system, quite cheap these days. | | | |
| Windows 7-10 on 13:04 - Jan 15 with 1527 views | sexton |
Had two and have sworn never to buy another. | | | |
| Windows 7-10 on 13:22 - Jan 15 with 1488 views | 2Thomas2Bowles |
Yeah could be, I tried again and it all just hung but managed after hours to get 7 back for now.
Yeah looking but I don't really know about ssd HD's | |
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| Windows 7-10 on 21:15 - Jan 15 with 1285 views | ozexile |
Thanks all | | | |
| Windows 7-10 on 22:13 - Jan 15 with 1219 views | LythamR |
Does it just hang or does it eventually throw up an error message
you may well have already done some of the checks on the link below but its worth running through them, in my experience . disk space has been a problem and another computer upgrade was resolved after making sure all the current version updates were in place particularly service pack updates
Heres the link anyway
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/10587/windows-10-get-help-with-upgrade- | | | |
| Windows 7-10 on 08:07 - Jan 16 with 1099 views | 2Thomas2Bowles |
Thanks for replying.
No error messages just the last time I tried it said something like, sorry could not install windows 10 where before it just hung.
I have a good system i7 8gb mem 1T disk with loads of space I clean up so don't understand it really.
I'll have a look at that link and see if there is anything.
Thanks
Edit
Found an error 0xc1900101-0x4000d it's a common one, looking into a fix. [Post edited 16 Jan 2020 8:46]
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| Windows 7-10 on 10:19 - Jan 16 with 1054 views | Toast_R |
I bought a 120GB SSD just for my operating system and have a standard 1TB hard drive for files. Best thing I ever did, boot up time is seconds.
You can buy one for less than £30.00 on Amazon. | | | |
| Windows 7-10 on 11:02 - Jan 16 with 1029 views | WrightUp5hit___ |
If you are not doing any "heavy lifting" have you thought about a chromebook? | | | |
| Windows 7-10 on 11:42 - Jan 16 with 1007 views | TacticalR |
First I feel your pain as I have had endless problems with Windows 10 over the past year. My laptop is 5 years old and came with Windows 8.1. I upgraded to Windows 10 when it first came out. However even simple Windows 10 upgrades sometimes fail, or install but do not work correctly, so I have got very used to reinstalling Windows from scratch.
Next, have you backed up your files? After all my problems with Windows 10 I back up all my files daily to a USB drive (WD 4TB Elements Portable External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 which costs about £80, the 1TB version of the drive costs about £40) using a batch file and Windows Task Scheduler.
If you've got a backup you can be more confident about trying different approaches to installing Windows 10 (e.g. installing Windows 10 from scratch instead of upgrading).
The Windows Ten Forums site is pretty good https://www.tenforums.com/. I am teaflask over there. I see they have a thread on upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 10:
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/139745-upgrade-windows-10-windows-7-free-27. | |
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| Windows 7-10 on 12:00 - Jan 16 with 986 views | 2Thomas2Bowles |
Thank for that
That is the way( first page) I'm trying to do it
Going for a 4th time after doing updates and other stuff | |
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| Windows 7-10 on 15:44 - Jan 16 with 919 views | 2Thomas2Bowles |
Looks like I may have it working, feck know how as twice had the manually reboot  | |
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| Windows 7-10 on 16:38 - Jan 16 with 885 views | TacticalR |
God knows how many thousands of hours of people's lives all over the world Microsoft is wasting. | |
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