Upgrade to Windows 10 from 7 getting stuck at 69%

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Ryland

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Im finally trying to upgrade a Windows 7 Ultimate desktop to Windows 10 and find that it keeps getting stuck at various percentages. Is there any way to figure out WHY its getting stuck so that I can fix it? I will leave it on 7 if I cant upgrade it because there is so much stuff already installed on this box.
 
Ryland said:
Im finally trying to upgrade a Windows 7 Ultimate desktop to Windows 10 and find that it keeps getting stuck at various percentages. Is there any way to figure out WHY its getting stuck so that I can fix it? I will leave it on 7 if I cant upgrade it because there is so much stuff already installed on this box.
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Unplug all but necessary hardware for the upgrade, including extra hdds and usb.
 
Sure. I dont have a lot of extra hardware connected but there is a spare HDD and webcam that I can unplug.
 
When you say "gets stuck" do you mean it sits there for 20 minutes and you get impatient and cancel it, or it sits at 69% for 12 hours?
 
I mean it sat at 69% from 10Pm last night until 7:30am this morning.
 
Executioner said:
You would be better off doing a fresh install. I've never been a fan of "upgrades".
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He can only do a clean install if he has the Windows 7 key available to put in. Otherwise, he is going to have to do the upgrade first just to get it to take, just saying.
 
I have the same issue when trying to upgrade to 1709 or anything newer. So I'm still on some old 15xx version of Windows 10.
 
Executioner said:
You would be better off doing a fresh install. I've never been a fan of "upgrades".
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Thanks to the stupid way Windows software is installed, upgrade is the only way people can keep their programs unfortunately.
 
I guess I'm too organized. I have all my installation CD's/DVD's, and a database with all the serial codes.
 
Executioner said:
I guess I'm too organized. I have all my installation CD's/DVD's, and a database with all the serial codes.
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And apparently time to go through all the activation processes on reinstall, restore saved games from 20 different locations, restore personal files and databases... Suddenly that upgrade seems pretty sweet.
 
I think I know what the problem is after looking through the log last night. I have been choosing to install updates as part of the installation and one of those updates is failing to get added to the installation. I will try again tonight with not choosing that option.

I have a ton of programs I would have to reinstall, reactivate, etc if I went the fresh installation mode. I do have the original Windows 7 Ultimate key around. I will stick with Win7 vs doing a fresh installation of Win 10 on this machine since its only sporting an i5-2600k which I havent gotten around to overclocking yet.
 
Ryland said:
I think I know what the problem is after looking through the log last night. I have been choosing to install updates as part of the installation and one of those updates is failing to get added to the installation. I will try again tonight with not choosing that option.

I have a ton of programs I would have to reinstall, reactivate, etc if I went the fresh installation mode. I do have the original Windows 7 Ultimate key around. I will stick with Win7 vs doing a fresh installation of Win 10 on this machine since its only sporting an i5-2600k which I havent gotten around to overclocking yet.
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I recommend downloading the media creation tool, creating a usb installer and upgrading from that.
 
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