Windows 10: help!!!! URGENT!! Windows 10 upgrade started automatically??

Hi, I want to try out Win 10 and i had it reserved and i'm planning to install it in a separate partition of my physical secondary drive. But today Windows Update started the upgrade automatically, first downloading it and now "Preparing the install". My question is, is it going to ask sometime in which drive i want to install it?

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windows 10 freezes on startup after free upgrade

I have just upgraded to windows 10 from windows 8.1 in my Lenovo pc. I was getting the "get windows 10" on the notification bar, after the upgrade and installation process completed I turned off my pc, and today when I switched on my laptop the windows
10 won't start, the startup is frozen and I can't enter my microsoft password to get started.. Need help urgently

 

my display quality is not HD quality how to improve it please help me urgently.

my laptop display in HD quality lost in window 10 upgrading ,how to get it in window 10 os plz help me urgently.

 

No. Its an upgrade.

Hope you had the foresight to do a backup, or system image

 

can i stop it right now? and then install it with an installer wherever i want?

 

Just restart your PC and then use a restore point. But that will not allow you to install it on a separate Partition. If you let it upgrade and then activate it you can download an ISO and perform a clean install but you will lose all of your programs.

 

Restarted, thanks god in Win 7 but win 10 installation goes on!! i dont know what to do to stop it!!! or tell it to install it in E drive!!!!
help!!!!


edit: download started again in Windows Update, still don't know what to do

 

When that update windows comes up you can cancel it and then hide the update in Windows Update.

Jim *Cool

 

ok,
1- i'm trying that as we speak, i don't see where to hide it, and i know where and how to hide updates.
2- how do i try out windows 10 in a drive of my convenience??

edit: ok, update hidden, thanks a lot, question 2 remains

 

Let it install. You must first do an upgrade install, then after the upgrade has been installed you down load the Media creation tool again and create media (DVD or USB ) and do a clean install. You would select "custom install" to select the correct hard drive during the clean install.

 

But i want to keep my Win7 installation in my Primary drive (C:\) installing win10 in a partition of another physical drive (E:\)!!, if I let it install i'll loose it!! do I?

 

It is an upgrade, and you must activate it prior to full install on the other drive E/partition.

Image your win7, upgrade it, activate it, then restore image, and then do a full win10 install where you like using an iso

 

Sorry for the ignorance, but
1- could you give me a quick guide how to image my win 7?.
2- how do i apply the image after the upgrade
3- Does this image include my sofware installations?

 

W10 "upgrade" is just that, an upgrade from a qualifying OS to W10. This is not a "two for the price of one" situation, if you use Win7 you cannot upgrade/use W10 on the Win7 license at the same time. It's either one or the other, the qualifying OS license is only for that OS or W10 by itself, not both at the same time.

There may be ways around that but that's not how this "free upgrade" is designed, right now I'm still on the insider program and am dual booting 7 and 10. That, and purchasing another license for a qualifying OS or W10 is the only legitimate way to have both on the same computer.

 

Pull the plug to your network , then restart your machine and then delete update KB3035583. Then restart again. Unless you want to go through with the upgrade.