Windows 10: Windows 7 to 10 Upgrade? Windows could not parse or process

Yes, Kari, I meant to ask you . Thanks for the answer! You are the sysprep and VM guru. Kyhi is the PE guru. (Although you might very well be a PE guru too!)

 

Thanks people for your answers. I'm still at work for another 5 hours and then home and straight to bed.

Cheers,
John

 

I have been toying with giving her a couple larger hdds as the 2 she has in there now are both only 20 GB.

Cheers,
John

 

Had another look at her hdd and she has 2, one x 500G C drive which has the W7 OS on with 3 different partitions and one x 20G D drive which has very little on it but is full.

Should the OS be on the smaller 20G drive and all downloads, programs etc be stored on the bigger drive?

Cheers,
John

 

If it were me, I would replace the 20GB hard drive with a 120gb SSD and install Windows 10 to that.

But, no the OS should not be on the 20GB hard drive, you would have to very carefully clean it to keep enough free space to install updates.

 

Hi Navy,

Thanks for that answer, I better go and buy one before I waste any more time trying to get W10 installed.

Cheers,
John

 

I dropped into a pc store on the way home from work today, but they advised that I should take out the old hdd to see if the latest SDD are compatible with the laptop.

I attempted to remove the base of the laptop but it did not want to just separate easily. I chickened out as I really didn't know what I was doing. She is back to school tomorrow.

I think her old man should be going back to school?

Cheers,
John

 

Of course it depends on the make/model of the laptop. My old laptops were easy, remove between two to four screws on a panel on the backside, pop off that one panel, two more screws, and the hard drive pops out.

On my new ASUS laptop - OMG. There are about 12 screws on the bottom. Then flip it over and pop off the entire topside keyboard, palmrest, and touchpad using a little guitar pick like tool all around the outside of it. Had to disconnect 4 ribbon cables, then two screws on the #1 hard drive. It wouldn't budge. Oh- because they glued it down to the base. OK, carefully pry it up to break the glue, now it comes out.

To upgrade anything else - RAM, network card, and second hard drive I had to remove the motherboard and fan assembly. I broke a tiny little piece of plastic - one of the "latches" that the keyboard top assembly popped into. It didn't really affect anything, but I have a little OCD and wanted to cry because I broke my "perfect" laptop. I didn't upgrade the second hard drive, but did upgrade the RAM and network card.

So, it can be an involved job on the newer laptops that the manufacturers have made less user friendly.

If you don't want the job of doing the upgrade, I would put the main OS on the 500GB HDD, and use the second 20GB HDD as a custom recovery drive - store the Windows 10 installation files there on a bootable FAT32 partition.

 

Hi Navy,
Sorry mate I meant to reply sooner but I'm getting slammed at work at the moment.

Yes her laptop is an Acer Aspire not sure what model but about 4 years old now.

Like yes about 12 screws on the bottom and I'm not sure what is attached to what?

Anyway I have all but run out of time for this update to W10.

Cheers,
John

 

Well I have screwed it up completely now. Tried reformating c drive and now get other error message about not being able to locate locale or something?

Cheers,
John