Anyone have Windows 10 yet

[PhilM]

If you upgrade all your installed programs and all your data files are retained (for example Xara Designer and all your XAR files).

I've upgraded a Surface Pro 3 but the upgrade won't work on my big Dell box. (I always get the error 80070002 20009.) I've tried various fixes and troubleshooters but no luck so far. The next best advice on the net is to disconnect the second Hard Drive and try again.

Phil

[PhilM]

Disconnecting my second hard drive for the duration of the upgrade worked so I'm now running Win10. So far everything seems to be working properly and, for the record, I haven't seen any problems with my nVidia graphics card or my dual monitor setup.

Phil

[The Alien]

Thanks Phil. Just out of curiosity, do you need to disconnect your second hard drive to keep the programs on it? I'm assuming you're talking about a secondary drive that contains data and programs in addition to the primary (OS) drive.

[PhilM]

It's only necessary to disconnect your secondary hard drive if the upgrade fails with a "80070002" error.

If you don't have that problem then just go ahead and upgrade with all your drives connected - the upgrade retains your data and your installed programs.

Phil

[handrawn]

if anyone is using classic shell on win 8.1 I'd advise you uninstall before trying to update to win10 - that did cause it to fall over on my laptop...

[The Alien]

I see, thanks.

[Rik]

Hey!
We now get 6 timer balls, in Windows 10.
Exciting, eh?!

They're obviously quite expensive, because, you don't get 6 everywhere.

[Acorn]

Well my W10 experience has been messy with lots of failed attempts.

This, however, worked:


1. Go into "C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download" and delete everything in that folder.
2. Now, run the command prompt as an administrator. Type in "wuauclt.exe /updatenow".
3. Go to your Control Panel > Windows Update and your Windows 10 should start re-downloading from scratch, hopefully without flaws this time.

This forced a clean upgrade that worked.

Before you try this, I suggest you check the Web against and error codes you might have and treat everything not on MS's web areas with caution.

Hey Ho, onto my other machines.

Acorn

[handrawn]

being a traditionalist I'm still using control panel a lot rather than the settings dialogs which are cute, at least compared to win 8, but often simplistic

[wizard509]

I am still running Windows 7, but have 10 reserved. Why am I reluctant to install 10, I don't know. Having read all the posts on TG about the possible loss of privacy issues gives me pause. Sure sounds like you guy aren't worried about that. Do you find it worth doing?