Windows 10: not activated now

LCDR. thanks and I read you message a lot earlier, and did call MS, and talked with two different people there and they said all is fine with my new upgrade win10. thanks so muc for your comments and all your help to me and others.
Cliff M acmaten

 

Glad to hear things are going well for you there! When first going to set up the second OS drive here with a clone of 7 using the 2010 Home edition of Acronis True Image it took a bit longer then 51 minutes even longer then a full hour due to how much was actually on the 7 drive itself a great deal being of all things what you will find in the Steam sub folders! Try a little bit over 300gb! That includes not only Steam titles but 3rd party developer mods you add on in the SteamApps\Source mods folder!

When the upgrade to 10 there kept failing I nuked the drive clean for a fresh copy of 7 and SP1 which is requited to still see 10 fail ot go due to having the two other drives plugged in even while the 7host/boot drive now secondary wasn't! 10 won't install to usb drives and will most likely ignore external drives while any internal non OS drives will have to be unplugged in the event you should need a clean install at some later date. In case you decide to keep the 500gb drive installed for additional storage and backup purposes like a good place to store full system image backups perhaps? or add a larger drive internally to see that one gone complaterly like I just saw the two new 2tb Sata II drives replace the pair of 5yr. old Sata 3 drives to grab a deal on a pair of Heavy Duty enterprise server type drives generally more durable you will have to at least unplug the data cable during any upgrade to repair or Reset PC op if not a full clean install while booted from the 10 media in order to avoid what I explained earlier.

In fact I finally go around to posting about this being a problem on the upgrade guide there since the warning had been seen on the clean install guide only about non OS drives while people coming in for the first time are reporting the exact same upgrade problems which can also be seen during a clean install. Boot files and temporary installation files and folders ending up in the wrong places!

With previous versions of Windows you would typically unplug Disk 0 when installing an older version onto Disk 1 to prevent the older version's boot information from ending up on the wrong drive and then leave Disk 1 plugged in when the newer automatically added the older in as a boot option when going to install the newer version last. If you later decide to try a dual boot set up this is something I can pass along to you here although a program like EasyBCD can add a new boot entry in for you if you decide to unplug the Disk 1 when installing 10 on Disk 0 and will still need to unplug any additional drives.