Re: [MBZ] Windows 10 Upgrade from 7

2020-01-08 Thread ROGER HALE via Mercedes
Kaleb, Have you run a search for logs? There is a log folder under Windows. It normally only holds "update" logs, but check anyway. Also, did you go to your PC maker and get the latest BIOS? I still think it's something simple which is being masked by the final error message. Did you get

Re: [MBZ] Windows 10 Upgrade from 7

2020-01-08 Thread Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes
On mine I disabled that pci card in device manager that said it needed a driver. I’m doing the install again right now and it appears to actually install windows 10, because it boots into it then downloads updates. It’s currently at 13% on updates. Will see if it works this time or not. I am

Re: [MBZ] Windows 10 Upgrade from 7

2020-01-08 Thread Randy Bennell via Mercedes
Probably but it is annoying that their upgrade program does not appear to work. I am not asking it to do anything odd. The laptop is an Acer with an i5 chip and 6 G of RAM and lots of hard drive space. It is a few years old but hardly an antique. Randy On 08/01/2020 12:12 PM, Meade Dillon via

Re: [MBZ] Windows 10 Upgrade from 7

2020-01-08 Thread OK Don via Mercedes
I've moved from Ubuntu to Mint since I had one PC and one instance of a VM that wouldn't properly install Ubuntu, but Mint worked. https://linuxmint.com - installed it from a bootable usb stick. On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 11:43 AM Randy Bennell via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I have

Re: [MBZ] Windows 10 Upgrade from 7

2020-01-08 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
Randy - can you format (wipe) the hard drive in that laptop, and then try to install Win 10 from a DVD or thumb drive? - Max Charleston SC On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 12:43 PM Randy Bennell via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I have not been able to make the upgrade work

Re: [MBZ] Windows 10 Upgrade from 7

2020-01-08 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
For work I am using Windows, both 7 and 10, under VMWare on a Macbook Pro. Also Ubuntu. I think we're completely done with W7, though. -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change

[MBZ] Windows 10 Upgrade from 7

2020-01-08 Thread Randy Bennell via Mercedes
I have not been able to make the upgrade work either. I have been trying to do it on a laptop that really has no data etc that I would be concerned about. It appears to work to begin but then hangs up when it is trying to download the updates at 46%. I have tried a number of remedies that are

[MBZ] Windows 10 Upgrade from 7

2020-01-08 Thread Randy Bennell via Mercedes
I have not been able to make the upgrade work either. I have been trying to do it on a laptop that really has no data etc that I would be concerned about. It appears to work to begin but then hangs up when it is trying to download the updates at 46%. I have tried a number of remedies that are