Windows 10 upgrade getting stuck??

I was on Windows 8.1 and it reverted to the last NVidia driver I had installed. I have noticed that at least on Windows 8.1 it is difficult to impossible to get rid of the last NVidia driver before it restores it again (prompts for a reboot on uninstall yet puts it back before you can even click on anything). Maybe Win 7 is different. In any case way more of a hassle than it should have been.

 

Thanks tgell

Problem is I cannot access either my DVD or usb/or the drivers were uninstalled or over written and my upgrade stalled before it installed With 10 drivers. It was early into the "Install Drivers" part of the upgrade when my screen went totally black and stayed that way with no signs of life such as something visible or a restart for over 4 hours before I believed something was wrong and rebooted. Why my rig did not revert to 8.1 rather than becoming unbeatable and unrecoverable I don't Know.

I think my only hope is to get an external DVD that comes with it's own driver installation disc.

Currently installing 139 important updates for Windows 8.1 on a new Acer Predator I had shipped overnight from Amazon. I declined the upgrade to W 10. I will never upgrade the new PC to Windows 10. When the new one breaks down,which it eventually will, I'll get another PC With W 10.5 Pre-installed.

Been writing this with a Kindle Fire I recently acquired. If my eyesight were a tiny bit better and I wasn't a gamer I think I'd just stay with a Kindle Fire, I't's my first tablet and I am impressed by it.

 

@hawki If the screen went black it is probaby due to an issue with Windows 10 and switchable graohucs, whuch can be avoided by going into the BIOS and disabling switchabke graphics.

You will not need any drivers if you want do a clean install of Windows 8. Just boot from the USB/DVD installation media.

 

See Reply # 33

I can make the upgrade succeed or fail. Every time.

These fail consistently
The Windows Update method
Media Creation Toolkit
Win10 ISO on the HD
Changing the Region and Language to US

This works every time. Create a bootable UFD from the Windows ISO. Run setup.exe (on the UFD) in Windows.

The ISO was downloaded from here...

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

 

Out of curiosity, what is the default language on the Media Creation Tool for you? For some reason it defaults to čeština for me. I had no issues with the upgrade when I changed it to English (United Kingdom).

 

I think I saw the same language. I chose English (US) for the ISO download.

 

@hawki, what is the make and model of the unbootable PC? Can you access UEFI/BIOS at boot?

 

Could you please post details on how you created your bootable UFD media?

 

Yes I can, but can't change the boot order cause I can't disable Secure Boot and none of my bootable devices show. I also lost that part of Settings/Trouble Shooting that says Boot From A device. It was totally hopeless. Will borrow an external dvd that has it's own driver on a disc and see if I can re-ininstall W 8 from my retail discs.But there may be a deregistration problem. Those discs installed W 8 on a PC I no longer have. Dunno if te auto deregisters when you try to install on another PC.

BUT Got the new PC last night. It was running fine but had a couple of issues like both my security suite and Windows defender were shown as on and I now understand that the Windows Defender Issue is an issue on W 10 also (when I searched Defender and clicked on Windows Defender - it showed that Real Time Scanning was off.) Also neither iTunes nor Shoutcast would not play, which I probably eventually could have fixed but I said WTF and Upgraded to W 10. The upgrade took an hour or less and was successful.

 

itman,

To get the ISO...

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

To create the bootable UFD I used Rufus 2.2 Portable....

https://rufus.akeo.ie/

Your UFD will be in the first field. Click the icon "Click to select an image.." to navigate to your ISO file. Leave everything else alone. Click Start.

If you decide to install a clean Win10 in the future, you can use this UFD. I did that yesterday as a test.

The time to upgrade Win8 to Win10 depends on your hardware. My times varied from 25 minutes to 3 hours.

 

Well, I tried two times to upgrade from 7 using the ISO: at the beginning of the installation it aska to me the license of 7, I write it - it's valid ! - and ISO always says to me that it's not regular. I skip and I go on the installation: all seems work, then I arrive at the final reboot, and after the reboot I have again 7 !!!

 

blacknight,

I haven't tried a Win7 upgrade. All my recent Win8.1 upgrades have worked. Are you using a bootable UFD?

 

I'm now doing a Win7 to Win10 upgrade from a bootable UFD. So far it is exactly the same as a Win8.1 upgrade. No Product Key has been requested.

Edit... Successful.

Edit... It is a bootable UFD but I didn't boot from it.

 

I burned the ISO on a DVD and I used the DVD to install 10.

 

What are you doing with the DVD? Are you booting the DVD?

 

After that nightmarish ordeal I'm amazed you braved buying anything again less than Windows 10.

 

Yes. Something wrong ?

 

Yes, big wrong. That's how to install a new OS. You should be running setup.exe on the DVD in Windows.

 

Hi guys, so I have tried 4 times now to upgrade my Win 7 machine to win 10 first using the media creation too by itself to upgrade then the last two using an iso I burned to a dvd and upgrading with the setup through windows. Each time I have tried I have gotten through until the last stretch where the Configuring Settings is at 33% and the overall progress is 83%. Each time I was able to successfully restore back to win 7 but its been getting very aggravating having the same problem over and over and I have no clue what to do at this point... Any ideas?

 

Thanks. But still a bit confused. Where did you get Run setup.exe (on the UFD) in Windows file from? Is it part of the download from MS that also contains the ISO image? On any bootable media I ever created, anything added to the media makes it unbootable. Your original instructions state your doing the WIN 10 upgrade from within WIN 7/8.

 

It's all in the .iso file. It allows a bootable USB or DVD to be created that also contains the files needed for an in-place upgrade of the current OS.

 

Opsss... Better I read something next time.... I ran setup in Windows, all worked till the final reboot: " welcome... etc... " then it says that it must reboot for an error: this for three time. Now I restored 7 from a disk image, next week I'll try again. Thank you !

 

In addition to this, the error I am getting when I load back into windows 7 is 0xC1900101 - 0x4000d

 

DefiantTech,

I haven't tried a DVD but a UFD works every time with Win8.1 and Win7. Run setup.exe in Windows and don't choose the download updates option.

 

itman,

When you explore your UFD in Windows you see Files and Folders. I see 4 files and 4 folders on my UFD as I downloaded the combined x86 and x64 ISO. But it doesn't matter if you downloaded the x86 or x64 ISO. One of the files is setup.exe. Right click it and click Run as Administrator from the menu.