Finished my Dell Win10 upgrade finally....

[coffee]

What a Cluster **ck is all I can say.

Plan: Upgrade Dell desktops in office (10 in all) with new SSD drives and from windows 7 to 10. Preserve the old drives in case things go really south on me. I can atleast get them back up and running.

First clone to SSD running win7 = Boots to login screen and BSOD.

1. Upgrade bios. Upgrade all drivers. - Nope. Same issue. The drive is a
Crucial MX500 1TB 3D NAND SATA 2.5 Inch Internal SSD - CT1000MX500SSD1(Z)

2. Went in and removed all software from startup except microsoft. Uninstalled any programs mentioning things like bluetooth or wireless ect.. -- Nope. Still wouldnt.

3. Replaced Crucial drives with Seagate SSD drives ---Success.

Looking back at this - Firmware issue on Crucial drives? I dont know.

Next came the upgrade to windows 10. This was a nightmare. I didnt want to do a nuke on the drives and start all over because they have all this third party stuff which requires licensing and the usual Office, Adobe stuff and would take quite a while to sort out.

Windows would finish install and start the upgrade process and get stuck at about 30%. Reboot, Roll back changes.

Windows 10 error code 0x8007042b 0x2000d

sfs /scannow
chkdsk
All ran fine.

I tried all sorts of things and finally ended up nuking the SSD and doing a full install. Things ran fine and then I had to go thru license hell.

However, I am done. I kept bugging my client about doing this a month ago but they would not approve a time to do it. Finally they noticed that new software from Intuit would not install on windows 7. Then I got the approval. lol..

 

[Sky-Knight]

What did you use the image the drives? Because I've done buckets of these and never had that much trouble. WD's acronis all the way, and when that didn't work Clonezilla. But I never let them downgrade the drive capacity just in case, because clonezilla can't shrink a drive.

 

[coffee]

What did you use the image the drives? Because I've done buckets of these and never had that much trouble. WD's acronis all the way, and when that didn't work Clonezilla. But I never let them downgrade the drive capacity just in case, because clonezilla can't shrink a drive.

I used Macrium Reflect. I also booted from Linux and did a DD and got the same error. I think its a firmware issue on the original SSD drives I bought. Probably some older stock they were blowing out.

 

[Sky-Knight]

I used Macrium Reflect. I also booted from Linux and did a DD and got the same error. I think its a firmware issue on the original SSD drives I bought. Probably some older stock they were blowing out.

Eww... I've only used Samsung and Western Digital SSDs for these jobs, and I've never had what you described go wrong. I prefer the latter, because the Acronis product is better than what Samsung uses. But typically I just image the thing over, update the BIOS and drivers, and feed it Win10. The whole process takes about an hour of my input, longer for the actual process of course, depending on how long the image runs.

But that's the luck isn't it... do it a hundred times and the one time you need it to be smooth, it comes out covered in razors.

 

[HCHTech]

But that's the luck isn't it... do it a hundred times and the one time you need it to be smooth, it comes out covered in razors.

You have a knack for memorable phrasing!

 

[frase]

Yea seems to be a logic board issue, Charlie Foxtrot sir!

 

[coffee]

Honestly, Whenever I have a issue and do my research and finally ask in various forums people reply "Never seen that before" lol. Story of my life.

Client asked me why it was taking so long to upgrade. To make things short and sweet I just said "Windows 10".

Oh, Client called yesterday. Seems on difference between windows 7 and 10 is that they dropped some fonts out of the operating system - as far as I can figure.

So, Their contracts with "Old English text MT" and "Copperplate Gothic Light" displayed as a cartoon font instead. I had to laugh a bit on that.

I redirected them to a free font site and showed them how to install the fonts. Told them that any that they use they should save copies on the server for future use.

 

[Metanis]

I've been a Crucial fan for a long time. But when it comes to SSDs I'm thinking I need to put them on the NO-GO list along with Kingston. Meanwhile I've never even once had an issue with a Samsung. Sure, just anecdotal, but we all have our biases.

 

[River Valley Computer]

I've been a Crucial fan for a long time. But when it comes to SSDs I'm thinking I need to put them on the NO-GO list along with Kingston. Meanwhile I've never even once had an issue with a Samsung. Sure, just anecdotal, but we all have our biases.

We have used a lot of Samsung, Hyundai, and Inland Professional. We have never had a failure with the last two 'yet'.

 

[JoeTech]

I've been a Crucial fan for a long time. But when it comes to SSDs I'm thinking I need to put them on the NO-GO list along with Kingston. Meanwhile I've never even once had an issue with a Samsung. Sure, just anecdotal, but we all have our biases.

We have had a lot of issues with Kingston SSD drives in brand new desktop computers over the last year. I have replaced them all with crucial ssd drives and never had the same problems again. I do think that Samsung is the most reliable brand though. I have never seen a Samsung drive fail either.

 

[alexsmith2709]

Im going to stick up for Kingston, I've used them for a while and never had an issue. I use the A400 range for most users. I've also used Samsung and WD with no issues. I've only ever used 1 crucial and that is still going strong after about 5 years and used in 2 computers. I believe its Samsung's Enterprise grade SSD's that are used in many datacentres for web hosting now.