Windows 10 Install Success

[gwpriester]

Huge thanks to John (Zaphodeist Priest) for suggesting I try Installing Windows 10 using the Windows Media Tool and it worked.

If like me you have had repeated failures to download and install Windows 10, this is the answer.

[Cloud]

Good for you Gary. Humans 1 Computers 0, in this case at least. And well done John for the suggestion.

[wizard509]

Glad to hear of your success Gary!

[angelize]

That's great news Gary. I still haven't had the time to do it. how did the process go?

[zaphodeist]

Glad it worked. Smooth and painless after the worriting I felt! :-D

[handrawn]

see - we techies said you could do it that way.. and you did !

well done

I take it you didn't download the ISO and make a DVD - that could be useful later on for maintenance, but it's by no means essential

[zaphodeist]

I did an Acronis back up to an external drive and made a bootable disk

[gwpriester]

I just went for the download and install and it took about one hour start to finish. I just left the room and we had coffee and when I came back it was up and running.

[handrawn]

ah dear old acronis I have used ye almost as long as xara... yes a system image backup is cool, I made one with win 10 upgrade keeping all my settings and one with win 10 upgrade clean [not keeping] just in case I decided to go that route idc

but making a win 10 DVD from the upgrade ISO could be useful for running things like diskpart outside of the OS was what I was thinking [see my current sig below - do not do this if you don't know what it means ]

[handrawn]

so Microsoft loves you after all Gary [trust the coffee was good]