Hmm - it's tales like this that make me glad I resisted the temptation to upgrade from Win7. It works; it does what I want; I'm leaving well enough alone...
Also my PC is so low spec that I'm almost certain I'd run into worse problems than you have. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ On Fri, Jul 29, 2016, at 07:38 AM, John wrote: > Just for grins & giggles, another tale of something or other ... > > Started the quest for Windoze 10 on my Photoshop computer yesterday > morning at 4:00am. If I'm going to have insomnia I might as well get > some use out of it. > > Again following the procrastinators guide, I made an image backup before > starting. That went smoothly, even better than it did on this computer. > > But then I ran into problems with Windoze 7. Somehow I'd hosed it up. > First hint was when I plugged in the thumb drive with the Windoze 10 > installation program & couldn't open it to run setup. Couldn't eject the > thumb drive, couldn't shut down. Finally had to resort to using the > power switch to kill it. Started again & chose safe mode. > > Got a screen telling me a Windoze Update had failed & was being reversed > to status quo ante. "Do not turn off your computer!" > > By then it was time for me to leave for my Wednesday morning photography > brunch. > > Arrived back home around 2:00pm & it was still showing the same screen. > > Decided "EFF IT!" and went out again to buy a 256GB Solid State Drive > with a 10 year warranty. Replaced both the boot drive and the 120GB 2.5" > drive I was using for Photoshop's scratch disk with solid state drives. > I have a bunch of 120GB & 128GB solid state drives I bought for $20 each > when Tiger Direct was closing their local store here in Raleigh. > > Did a clean install of Windoze 7 PRO 64-bit w/SP1 from DVD. While it was > doing its thing, I used this computer to load another thumb drive with > motherboard drivers (audio, USB, PCI bridge & LAN), latest Nvidia driver > for the video card, latest Firefox stand-alone installer & a couple of > Microsoft Update MSU files that effectively add up to "Service Pack 2" > (although Microsoft doesn't call it that, it's a "convenience roll-up") > > Everything went swimmingly, although the "convenience roll-up" takes > about 4 hours to install. But install it does. > > I'm prepared. I have several library books close to hand to while away > the hours while I wait. > > Finally got started with the Windoze 10 install around 9:00pm. I have > the standalone installer on another thumb drive. Inserted it and > double-clicked Setup. It told me my Windoze 7 wasn't registered & I > needed to provide a product key. The guy at the computer store had > warned me to expect that & that I could just use the Windoze 7 product > key. > > No joy! > > So I exited & found where to register the Windoze 7 installation with > Microsoft & that was one of the few instances where something from > Microsoft has worked correctly without my having to beat it into > submission. > > Second time ... everything seems to be going along well. I chose not to > install updates because that took a long time when I did it on this > computer. So, it's going along & doing its own thing - purple screen > "Installing Windoze 10" - until about midnight the screen just goes > blank. Hit the space bar, move the mouse around & click the left button > a couple of times. Nothing! But the activity light on the computer is > still steadily blinking, so I let it keep doing whatever it's doing. > After about half an hour, I get a mouse pointer. > > Around 1:00am, it comes up with the screen with the big circle > "Upgrading Windows" 0%. Down in the lower left it says "Copying files > 0%". I'm guessing that even though it's supposed to be a "stand-alone" > installer, it's downloading those updates I told it I would install > later. > > *AND* I'm guessing that all the OTHER procrastinators who waited until > the > last minute are also downloading & installing Windoze 10 today (deadline > is tomorrow) and Microsoft doesn't have enough server capacity to handle > the current load. > > I just took a look & it's now "Upgrading Windows 23%" and "Copying files > 77%". > > Damn! I'm glad I didn't wait until the Friday deadline. I just hope it > finishes before that deadline. > > Still have to download & install anti-virus software, and I have to > install Photoshop, Nik filters, etc., plus all the other little programs > I use on that computer. > > Not mad or anything. 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