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Create a linux live cd or usb drive. Restart computer tapping f-12, f-2, esc key or whatever your computer uses to access the boot menu, and choose to boot from CD or USB.
If there isn’t a key to get to boot menu go into the bios and set it to boot to cd or whatever first.
Make sure you have another external HDD or thumbdrive large enough to copy your files to and use the linux OS to browse your Windows drive and copy/paste files to the external drive.
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My experience mirrors yours. Stable, no noticeable issues. So much so we have upgraded about 50 machines we maintain that are running Win 10 and upgraded quite a few Windows 7 machines. The machines vary in specs from a lowly pentium 1.4 with 2GB RAM to I7s with 32GB RAM running a wide assortment of software. Have had no reported issues and just a couple little glitches during the upgrades.
Not sure I’m ready to say “impressed” but very satisfied 🙂
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That machine is still pretty usable. I’ve upgraded much older lower speced machines. The only thing I’d add to all the above is to consider replacing your cmos battery for a couple$ and doing a good cleanup prior to upgrading if you go that route. Remember to check your bios settings prior to replacing the battery.
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I had this occur on a laptop upgrading to Win 10. A repair of Office did fix it BUT I had to enter the product key. Was a bit of a chore since the client saved his key card but couldn’t remember what account he used to get the actual key. After some trial and error we were lucky enough to find the account and retrieve the key.
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Glad to hear things have been working pretty well for you. Can you provide any more details around the “full cleanup and maintenance” bit?
Just a good thorough maintenance disk cleanup, sfc, chdsk, defrag.
One other thing I do is disable any A/V, MBAM etc from running during the upgrade. After upgraded I re-enable them.1 user thanked author for this post.
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After doing some testing and fresh installs of 1809, I’ve upgraded approximately 45 machines from 1709 and 1803 to 1809 over the last few weeks. Only one issue with a system that had redirected user folders on 1803 but it was easily cleaned up (basically created 2 copies of user folders).
Haven’t had any issues reported and quite a few with older machines stating their machines “felt” faster. That could have just been due to doing a full cleanup and maintenance prior to the update and after.
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Although I usually prefer RDP I often use AnyDesk and like it. https://anydesk.com/remote-desktop
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