[BUG] Windows 7 upgrade

[overburnz]

So i have a friend with a Windows 7 Ultimate machine, we all know how legit this is..., and he received the “end of support” notification and wants me to upgrade to Windows 10, I say ok sure, no problem, because it’s his work machine i clone the SSD (just in case anything goes south) and start the upgrade process, download the exe file from Microsoft and after download the files to install I get the “this machine does not support windows 10” error... is it only because of the version being “ultimate” ? Has anyone gotten this message? I only work on Mac computers these days and windows machines are rare...

Thanks

 

[overburnz]

PS: nuke and pave is not an option because he has some software that he cannot afford to lose and cannot reinstall and also he has some remote access configurations that he does not remember who did and cannot lose that as well

 

[Markverhyden]

I've updated W7 Ultimate machines before and they upgraded just fine to W10 Home. Incredibly the licenses were legit. What's the specs on the machine? What version did you try? I'd try a much earlier version, say 1709.

 

[overburnz]

I've updated W7 Ultimate machines before and they upgraded just fine to W10 Home. Incredibly the licenses were legit. What's the specs on the machine? What version did you try? I'd try a much earlier version, say 1709.

it’s custom made but the hardware part it’s fine, i think it’s a i3 2.(something) 8GB ram and an ssd, the board is a ASUS (can’t tell which model right now), could it be because of the integrated graphics card?

 

[Sky-Knight]

Nope, all Intel integrated controllers are supported from first gen Iseries onward, and most of the G series stuff still works too even if Intel doesn't "support" it.

Also, your friend sounds like a pirate... and should burn. "can't loose software"... bah, more like never bought it and can't be bothered.

P.S. Win7 Ultimate upgrades to Win10 Pro, not home... so not sure why the home upgrades happened.

 

[overburnz]

Nope, all Intel integrated controllers are supported from first gen Iseries onward, and most of the G series stuff still works too even if Intel doesn't "support" it.

Also, your friend sounds like a pirate... and should burn. "can't loose software"... bah, more like never bought it and can't be bothered.

P.S. Win7 Ultimate upgrades to Win10 Pro, not home... so not sure why the home upgrades happened.

pretty much lol I’m gonna try and see if it upgrades if not I will “put baby in a corner”

 

[Porthos]

W7 Ultimate machines before and they upgraded just fine to W10 Home.

Ultimate becomes Windows 10 PRO.

 

[britechguy]

And I can confirm my ancient machine with an Intel Pentium Core 2 (I think, and I'm not running to check) that originally had Windows 7 32-bit Home, upgraded to Ultimate (legitimately), went to Windows 10 Pro 32-bit via in-place upgrade without any issues.

I later did a nuke and pave to get it to Windows 10 64-bit, since it is 64-bit hardware (even if ancient).

 

[Markverhyden]

I could swear that is what happened the only time I did it. I do remember everyone saying W10 Pro in the past but I'm fairly certain I ended up with W10 home. With my RAM limits I'm frequently hit with buffer overruns.... So who knows.

 

[johnrobert]

I have always got win10 Pro from Ultimate I generated a genuine key first and imported it, did a clean install

 

[overburnz]

Update: it is now giving me an error that the recovery partying (100mb) has not enough space to install Windows 10, i have checked some options but they seem to me a little risky if they go wrong...

 

[Porthos]

Update: it is now giving me an error that the recovery partying (100mb) has not enough space to install Windows 10, i have checked some options but they seem to me a little risky if they go wrong...

Make an IMAGE backup first.
Extract the current Win 10 ISO to a folder in the c drive and run setup from that folder. Be sure to remove all AV programs including MSE if installed.
Also how large is this drive and how much free space is on it?

 

[overburnz]

Make an IMAGE backup first.
Extract the current Win 10 ISO to a folder in the c drive and run setup from that folder. Be sure to remove all AV programs including MSE if installed.
Also how large is this drive and how much free space is on it?

250GB SSD WD Green, 65GB free space, already tried to do that with no luck ;/

 

[Porthos]

250GB SSD WD Green, 65GB free space, already tried to do that with no luck ;/

Use a bootable partition manager and add 450mb of space to that first 100mb partition.

 

[Haole Boy]

I've had a couple that would not upgrade until I installed latest BIOS.

 

[Sky-Knight]

Yeah, GParted that thing, shrink the OS partition a bit and make the recovery partition bigger. It's easy and relatively safe.