Windows 10 is now available and for most of us it is
a free upgrade. As long as you are running a legal copy of Windows 7 or higher
you and your hardware support it, you can upgrade for free. Here is an info gram about the upgrade paths fro Windows 10.
Most
of us by now have the upgrade icon in the bottom right hand corner of our
screens. If not there are two different approaches that I suggest for
getting the icon to show up. The first is to ensure that you have run all of
the available updates through Microsoft update. If the icon is still not showing up then
download and run this program win10fix_full.zip
If the computer is part of a domain and the icon is still
not showing up, take the computer off the domain and see if it shows up.
Even if the icon does not show up you can still upgrade with
the ISO disk, this is available for free download and has a very nice built in
download and install program. Here is the link for the ISO Windows10 ISO
Either way that you begin the install it will take a while
to finish, there are reports that it will take longer on laptops regardless of
the specs. Expect for the entire process to take an hour or two.
If your
installation failed, like mine did, and you received a message that tells you
that “We couldn’t update the system reserved partition.” Or Error code: 0xc1900104
Then you had the same issue that I did and in reality it is
a very minor issue. Essentially the issue is that your system reserve partition
is too small and or to full. Mine was 100MB and 99% full, thus not allowing any
information to be written or modified to the partition. The solution is very
simple, increase the size of the partition.
Here is a step by step of how to correct the issue and get
the install to complete.
Right click on my computer and select Manage
Select Disk Management under storage
You should see a partition that says “Reserve” or “System”
or something similar
Right click and select “Change Drive Letter and Paths”
Click add and in the next window you should see “Assign the
following drive letter” scroll down and change it to Y. click OK and OK and
close out of these screens.
Select the Y drive and re-size it to about 300MB taking the
space from C.
You May have to restart the computer for the changes to take
place.
After this try to install Windows
10 again, for me it worked without issue.
Microsoft will not email you a link for updating to Windows 10. If you get an email like this it is a virus.
Best of luck
Scott Gamet
CCENT
MCTS Windows 7
