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1. #Dv backup windows install
2. #Dv backup windows drivers
3. #Dv backup windows update
4. #Dv backup windows upgrade
5. #Dv backup windows full

So, BEFORE you do the upgrade, follow these instructions from the community Win10 forums about creating a genuineticket.xml file. Problem is that a clean-install often does not recognize the prior activation, even though it should.

You MIGHT be able to fix this by doing a clean-install of Win10.

#Dv backup windows upgrade

If you do all this, and after the upgrade, your PC is only partially functioning, that means that the Upgrade did not go well and stuff is still there from the prior OS corrupting the functionality of Win10. So, I ended up having to Restore my PC to Win7 (using the MR backup I had made prior to the Upgrade), and follow the details in step 4 - and that worked!

#Dv backup windows install

In my case, I created Win10 install media on USB, inserted that, and tried to do the Upgrade while still in Win7. A much better, and more reliable way, is to use the Microsoft Media Creation Tool:

#Dv backup windows update

Windows Update is the easiest, but least reliable, way to do the Win10 Upgrade. IF that happens, you have to manually use a partitioning tool to resize it yourself. But Win10 needs 350MB, and, in some cases, is NOT able to resize this on its own. It is 100MB in size - all that is needed for Win7. This holds something known as the boot loader code. There is a small partition on the hard drive of Win7 preinstalled machines known as System Reserved.

#Dv backup windows full

NOW, you have the means to restore a full working system from the external drive or USB stick in only a few minutes. You avoid this by making an image backup to an external drive or USB stick using Macrium Reflect (MR) which provides a FREE version that can be used to image and restore partitions or entire drives.ġ) Download and install Macrium Reflect (MR)Ģ) Run MR and choose the option: "Create an image of the partition(s) required to backup and restore Windows" to write a full backup to an external drive or USB stickģ) Use the option to create a boot USB stick or CD This is VITAL because the machine is likely to fail the upgrade, and when it does, you will learn that the Win10 GoBack function is NOT reliable, and that can leave you with a corrupted machine that will require factory reset, and losing everything on it, to get it working again. However, if you do not have this problem, to CAN upgrade to Win10, but you must be prepared to do four things:ġ) Make a complete image backup to external drive or large capacity USB stick,Ģ) Make changes to the reserved system partitioning scheme on your hard drive,ģ) Use a different approach than Windows Update to do the Upgrade,Ĥ) Be prepared to do a clean-install, if the Upgrade does not work. IMPORTANT Warning: If there are two different display adapters listed, one Intel and one AMD/Nividia, then you have this problem - and if you force an upgrade to Win10, you will have serious graphics problems and your machine will not work. A way to tell if your PC has two different graphics chips is to look in Device Manager under Display Adapters.

#Dv backup windows drivers

Those drivers are not available from Intel, AMD, or Nvidia. Problem is, this requires special graphics drivers to work, and while those came preinstalled on the Win7 laptops, those drivers simply do not exist for Win10. You ran using the Intel chip most of the time, but when you needed extra graphics power, like in Gaming, the PC automatically switched over to using the AMD or Nvidia graphics chip. This was known as Switchable Graphics or Hybrid Graphics. HP laptops, especially the older Win7 machines, often came with two different graphics chips - and Intel and then, either an AMD or Nvidia.

But I ignored that, did the upgrade anyway, and have been happily using Win 10 on the laptop for years now - it even runs Win10 v20H2 build 804 (the very latest released build) without issues.īut, there was some work involved in getting Win10 installed and working on it - so my advise is to read the article I wrote below to do the prep needed for your upgrade: I don't personally trust any MS Compatibility Tool - as I ran that on my DV6 laptop and was also told it was not compatible with Win10. This has been evident over time when Win7-era PCs originally upgraded to Win10 without issues but folks trying to upgrade the same PCs years later ran into compatibility issues.