[HOWTO] Install Windows 10 and Keep the Windows You Have Now - Comments Page 2

Ken Atwood, I ran into the same problem. Does your machine have an OEM copy of Win 7? If so, Keyfinder brings up the wrong key. It extracts the OEM bulk key which will not work to activate Win 10. When I input the key that is on the COA pasted on the case, that worked. My copy of Win 10 is now activated.

Bob Levy asked, "How do I print a page like yours that includes the comments?"

Here's what I do, Bob. First print the article. You already know how to do that. Then:

1. Immediately above the first comment (in small print)--and immediately below the last comment (in large print)--is a link to the first page of comments.

2. Click it.

3. Print. You'll print the entire first page of comments.

4. If the comments take more than one page, click the link at the bottom of each page to take you to the next page, and print that page.

5. Staple the comments pages (in order, of course) the article printout.

6. But before you staple everything together, make a photocopy of everything for backup purposes.

7. Then you can safely discard your original printout.

8. Steps 6 and 7 are an attempt at humor and should not be attempted at home.

Easy peasy.

I have the iso file (an all night d/l @ .72 down). I cannot get my system to boot from the cdrom although the bios is set to boot from cdrom.
Can I make a new bootable drive now that I have the iso file? Thanks

What a fantastic way to add complexity, decrease reliability, and make troubleshooting exponentially more difficult, and all for free! Best of all, there's zero risk of increased productivity.

hi bob,
followed all your instructions and hit a snag.
windows will not allow itself to be installed ona "dynamic" drive and has to be on the main drives root directory apparently.
weird stuff. any ideas? i missed the july 30 cut off to install, tho i got the install media together well before that. thanks bro!
jimi

Hi Bob

I went for the free 10 and immediate rollback. Ha! Another Microsoft SNAFU - now 7 Ultimate just fails to boot into other than safe mode - and you cannot re-install 10 from safe mode! An MS guy made lots of suggestions, none of which worked, including an ISO download to repair.

That failed, now I cannot log in to MS for further help, because they have hundreds of thousands of other folk with serious rollback issues.

The recommendations included a way to find my product code, so I can clean install back to 7 Ult. but I'll have to re-install my freebie programs that you have suggested over the years. My data was saved - so at least one reader takes note of your recommendations.

The deadline for free upgrade has passed - pity I did not miss it! As we say over here, "you get owt fer nowt".

Misterfish

What I myself did was, after shrinking my Windows 7 partition:
1. I cloned it.
2. From the original partition (the one I was keeping as Win7), I used regedit to load the System hive on the clone partition and, in HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices, and renamed the \DosDevices\C: key to a different drive letter (this is necessary so that the clone's partition can claim C: for itself when it first boots).
3. I used BCDEDIT to add an entry for the clone, and set it to be the default OS.
4. Then I booted into the clone, and upgraded it to Win10.

I followed Bob's instructions on how to have a dual boot system on my computer....As a result my computer has really slowed down and now I want to reverse what I have done.....I want to remove Windows 10 and its partition, adding it back to C:]\.....Once this is done I will see if I can still upgrade from Winndows 7 to Windows 10...

Your help will be greatly appreciated....