I thought I'd try an in place upgrade to Win10 on my remaining Win 8.1 PC.
It failed, no reason given and logs aren't Jeff readable.

One suggestion was a service running that interfered with the upgrade so I
disabled all non MSFT services and am trying again.

It is downloading Win 10 again, is there not a way to get it to continue
where it left off or at least use what it has already downloaded?

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Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
That's an amazing invention but who would ever want to use one of them?
(President Hayes speaking to Alexander Graham Bell on the invention of the
telephone)

On 31/07/2022 10:30, Jeff Gaines wrote:
>
> I thought I'd try an in place upgrade to Win10 on my remaining Win 8.1
> PC. It failed, no reason given and logs aren't Jeff readable.
>
> One suggestion was a service running that interfered with the upgrade so
> I disabled all non MSFT services and am trying again.
>
> It is downloading Win 10 again, is there not a way to get it to continue
> where it left off or at least use what it has already downloaded?
>

My advice would be to use the "Media Creation Tool" and make yourself a
bootable CD/DVD or USB stick, then do a virgin install.

The trivial bits and pieces which you will miss out on by not
"activating" Windows are hardly worth bothering about.

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On 31/07/2022 in message <tc5j21$8klp$1@dont-email.me> Abandoned_Trolley
wrote:

>On 31/07/2022 10:30, Jeff Gaines wrote:
>>
>>I thought I'd try an in place upgrade to Win10 on my remaining Win 8.1
>>PC. It failed, no reason given and logs aren't Jeff readable.
>>
>>One suggestion was a service running that interfered with the upgrade so
>>I disabled all non MSFT services and am trying again.
>>
>>It is downloading Win 10 again, is there not a way to get it to continue
>>where it left off or at least use what it has already downloaded?
>>
>
>My advice would be to use the "Media Creation Tool" and make yourself a
>bootable CD/DVD or USB stick, then do a virgin install.
>
>The trivial bits and pieces which you will miss out on by not "activating"
>Windows are hardly worth bothering about.

Yes, that's my preference too - and it's just failed a second time so I
will do that! I have a digital licence for Win 10 so no activation issues.

About 80% of my software doesn't use the registry and is on the "D" drive
and will "just work" after a re-install.

Four important programs are fine as long as I un-install while connected
to the Internet before re-installing the OS, they send a message home and
check on re-installing.

Then, of course, there's MSFT Office. I have enough licences for 9
installations of the basic stuff and 2 for Access but every bogging time I
re-install I end up doing 'phone activation which means taking down reams
of numbers - I'm a touch dyslexic so that's asking for trouble :-(

I do have Office 97 which will install on Win 10 - and actually just works
from my "D" drive except it whines a bit about the registry. It's
unbelievably fast on a modern PC and does have the stupid "Ribbon" taking
up vertical space on modern short screens so a good fall back.

Here goes, just to use "colorclassic" so I can put back some of the
legibility MSFT has removed.

--
Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his
life.
(Jeremy Thorpe, 1962)

On 31/07/2022 in message <xn0nl0l0g27p8j000@news.individual.net> Jeff
Gaines wrote:

>>The trivial bits and pieces which you will miss out on by not "activating"
>>Windows are hardly worth bothering about.
>
>Yes, that's my preference too - and it's just failed a second time so I
>will do that! I have a digital licence for Win 10 so no activation issues.

Well Win 10 is on but what a faff. It flatly refused to recognise the
NVM.e thingy that is installed on the Asus Z170K board until I had removed
the one that is on a PCIe card and all 4 of my backup SSD drives. I have
added the storage NVMe and will put the SSD's back later. I did the shift
F10 thing and used Diskpart but whatever Diskpart said (all was well) the
installer didn't want to know.

I remember this used to happen when SSDs first came out but still now?

Oh, spell checker not installed apologies, will do next.

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Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
I take full responsibility for what happened - that is why the person that
was responsible went immediately.
(Gordon Brown, April 2009)