Windows 10: Sytem recovery after upgrading from W8.1 to W10

Discus and support Sytem recovery after upgrading from W8.1 to W10 in Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade to solve the problem; Hi, I recently used Window's recovery option to perform a factory restore, because of diminishing drive space, before upgrading my partner's HP... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade' started by fade2gray, Mar 13, 2020.

  1. FADE2GRAY
    fade2gray Win User

    Sytem recovery after upgrading from W8.1 to W10


    Hi,

    I recently used Window's recovery option to perform a factory restore, because of diminishing drive space, before upgrading my partner's HP Stream 11 Notebook, from Win8.1 to Win10 1909, using the Media Creation tool.

    I am wondering what effect any future factory restore might have, will it restore W8.1 or W10?

    Thanks for any heads up.

    :)
     
    fade2gray, Mar 13, 2020
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  2. ITHANUL
    Ithanul Win User

    Now that W10 is out, are you a W7 / W8 refusenik?

    You can probably install over if you got all your data backed up. Then do upgrade option. Also a good thing to do would probably make a image of the OS for backup.
     
    Ithanul, Mar 13, 2020
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  3. THOMAS FOX_656
    Thomas Fox_656 Win User
    Recovery partition after upgrade

    My computer came with W8, and I did the free upgrade to W10. Does the upgrade also update the recovery partition that was on the hard drive before the upgrade?
     
    Thomas Fox_656, Mar 13, 2020
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  4. RADI
    Radi Win User

    Sytem recovery after upgrading from W8.1 to W10

    Skip upgrading W8 Pro to W10 and install W10 and use key from W8 Pro?

    TL;DR

    1. Get a bootable WIN 10
    2. Install WIN 10
    3. Enter they key you have from your WIN 7/8
    4. Go to setting and activate the newly installed WIN 10
    5. If your activation fails, enter your key again.
    6. That should fail again but will give you the option to call support
    7. Call support and they will help you finish your WIN 10 activation

    The long story.

    Something happened, and my Windows 8.1 Pro stopped working and I had to reinstall it. I have a Windows 8 Pro installation DVD that I got from Amazon a few years back. I used it and installed Windows 8 Pro on my PC. Ultimately I wanted to upgrade to Windows 10 Pro, but it was taking too long to update Windows 8 to 8.1, so I installed Windows 10 Media Creation and created a bootable Windows 10 USB. Using the bootable USB, I installed Windows 10 Pro on my PC, and that is where the pain started. I did some googling and found that with Starting with W10 build 1511, you can use the W7 or W8 key on a clean install, but I could not find how to actually activate the fresh Windows 10 installation. After several tries to activate I finally called support and they helped me out.

    Note: A side effect of skipping the Windows 7/8 upgrade to Windows 10 is that support had to invalidate my Windows 8 product key and give a new key.
     
    Radi, Mar 13, 2020
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