Windows 10: Windows 10 - Power Outage while installing

Hi guys!

As the topic says, there was a Power Outage while I was busy installing Windows 10.

I'm from South Africa, we have something called "LoadShedding". Where the goverment randomly switch the power off of a certain area, due to the fact that they own the company, who provides the electricity, million of not billions.

I upgrade was running and was at about 77% when the power went out. So I got the power back on with our generator.
On startup, it displayed the Windows 10 load screen, but without the blue Windows logo, just the loading disc at the bottom middle of the screen.

It was loading for about 10 - 15minutes, then jumped over to the Windows 7 loading, and started up Windows 7 as it is the OS I'm upgrading from.

Came to the desktop and all of the sudden my Windows copy was not genuine, and the "Get Windows 10" app is gone.

I did go to How to Upgrade to Windows 10 and there it says you must have an activated version of Windows 7 or 8.

Any solutions?

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Hello Everyone,

As the title suggests, while i was installing Windows 10, my pc was hit by a power outage. I was upgrading from windows 7 ultimate and really wanted the benefit of dx12 on Windows 10 as Im planning to add a video card supporting it.

I spent hours wrestling with it to get it to download but it eventually did which took a long time because I dont have speedy net where I live. My pc restarted and the installation commenced. It even started up differently by loading files and then the
win 10 logo appeared and the installation begun. Shortly after this, while it was installing there was a power outage and upon reboot it reverted to windows 7 (cant remember exactly but i remember the message (The installation failed in the SAFE_OS
phase with an error during BOOT operation) .

Now When i look in my computer it says my win 7 is not genuine...but before i attempted to download
win 10, it was. I am now blocked from re-downloading and starting over which i thought would happen .....heck i thought win 10 would be fine after the power outage.....(i thought Microsoft caters for such matters), but no. I now have 30 days to install
a win7 key which i do not understand, why i have to do this? i already had a genuine one.Its really frustrating and im currently in college and have a boat load of important files on my pc and im afraid ill lose all my info. ....Any help would be
greatly appreciated

Thanks for your time and effort

OP - Power Outage during Windows 10 installation