Windows upgrades fail after system restore

[TheOldMan]

I believe a Windows 7 can make the Windows 10 media from the webpage I liked.  Just make sure to use the "Using the tool to create media"  "to install Windows 10 on a different PC"  There will be a couple of steps before it actually starts.  This is assuming you are on broadband

[TheKid2112]

I'm going to have to try that because I just did the recovery from the recovery disk that I made from the old hardrive running upgraded to win10 and it restored to win8!  I don't understand that.

[TheKid2112]

Found out why creating a recovery drive from win10 didn't work.  Creating a recovery drive simply copies the recovery partition to another drive, which in my case was a win8 recovery partition, even though I had upgraded to win10.  I am currently trying windows media creation on a different computer.  If that doesn't work, I guess my only option will be to try to clone the failing drive before it fails completely, but I would prefer a clean install.  Or perhaps there is a third party software that will make an actual recovery disk of whatever os is currently running.

[mdklassen]

> The "old" computer (with win10) does work (most of the time). 

> It was starting to get disk errors, that is why I wanted a new hard drive.

Maybe, try a different approach, namely to use "disk-cloning" software, to copy, block-by-block, from "source" (the old disk-drive) to "target" (the new disk-drive).

If it fails to copy a few blocks, so what?

My 120GB SSD has:  4096 bytes in each allocation unit, with 29,278,975 total allocation units.

Being unable to copy a "few" blocks, out of over 29 million, is a "minimal" problem.

Those blocks could be "unallocated" blocks, or they could be a support file for a Cyrllic keyboard -- something that you will never use.

If you have purchased a SEAGATE disk-drive, there is free disk-cloning software on the their web-site. 

This software will also work if the "source" disk-drive is from SEAGATE, and the "target" drive is from any manufacturer.

If you have purchased a WESTERN DIGITAL disk-drive, there is free disk-cloning software on the their  web-site. 

This software will also work if the "source" disk-drive is from WESTERN DIGITAL, and the "target" drive is from any manufacturer.

Something to consider.

[mdklassen]

At 9:46, you wrote: I guess my only option will be to try to clone the failing drive before it fails completely ...

At 9:55, I posted my (long-winded) reply, which made the same recommendation, before I saw your posting.

Great minds think alike!

Yes, a "clean install" is best, when it works.

[TheKid2112 · Accepted solution]

Thanks for all the help.  I finally got a clean install after the 4th try.  It told me the partitions were out of order, so I cleaned out all the partitions, and it took.  I lost the backup partition, but oh well.  Perhaps I should have made a seperate partition for a disk image or something, but I'm not risking trying it again.

I'm not exactly sure what was different the last time, but I'll take it.  🙂

Thanks for the advice.

[TheOldMan]

You are welcome glad it worked out!

[mdklassen]

> Thanks for all the help.  

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