How long should a Win7 to Win10 upgrade take?

[dud]

I am running Win7 Professional and decided to "upgrade" to Win10. I started the upgrade via MS site instructions but 5 hours later found my system stuck at 99%. Anyone else have this issue? I just installed an 850 EVO and have a Windows experience of 7.5 if that matters. I just want to upgrade to 10 before the deadline. If it takes this long I'll be retired before it happens.


Thank you ...

 

[lxskllr]

Took me several hours with some false starts, and stutters. Windows doesn't tell you what it's doing, so you can't tell if it's irrevocably hung, or just... doing whatever the hell Windows does. Updating always seems to take forever, and it makes sure to use all resources available. I can't imagine what it's doing.

 

[dud]

Took me several hours with some false starts, and stutters. Windows doesn't tell you what it's doing, so you can't tell if it's irrevocably hung, or just... doing whatever the hell Windows does. Updating always seems to take forever, and it makes sure to use all resources available. I can't imagine what it's doing.

Why do we put up with this crap? There is only about 5 days left to upgrade ...

If only I could get my Linux distros to do everything that I need/want ... I could divorce MS!

 

[lxskllr]

Why do we put up with this crap? There is only about 5 days left to upgrade ...

If only I could get my Linux distros to do everything that I need/want ... I could divorce MS!

I did it for the secretary cause she needed the latest version of Quickbooks. I suspect she really doesn't, but I can't keep track of everyone's software, and learn several disciplines well enough to come up with acceptable substitutes. I use gnu/linux on all my machines.

As a side note, the secretary has the most impressive computing skills in the office. She knows what she uses, what version she's running, and how to use it. I loaded the new quickbooks for her, and she noted it looked different. She poked around a minute, and said she'd figure it out; and she did. That would have stopped everyone else for a day :^D

Other people have literally used the same software for decades, and don't know what all it does. I have to do a search on software I don't use to solve problems for others :^S

 

[pimpin-tl]

I am running Win7 Professional and decided to "upgrade" to Win10. I started the upgrade via MS site instructions but 5 hours later found my system stuck at 99%. Anyone else have this issue? I just installed an 850 EVO and have a Windows experience of 7.5 if that matters. I just want to upgrade to 10 before the deadline. If it takes this long I'll be retired before it happens.


Thank you ...

A good computer with an SSD, 1 hour I have seen. Longer if it's spinning disk.

 

[Elixer]

A good computer with an SSD, 1 hour I have seen. Longer if it's spinning disk.

It also depends on the amount of RAM & CPU speed.
One system I updated that only had 2GB RAM & a 1.3GHz Dual core + HD (yes, a laptop) took 6 hours.

 

[MustISO]

I've done a few over the last few days, all with SSDs. Don't think it took more than 45-50 minutes for any of them. Fastest one was a clean install that seemed like it was only about 20 minutes.

 

[dud]

I've done a few over the last few days, all with SSDs. Don't think it took more than 45-50 minutes for any of them. Fastest one was a clean install that seemed like it was only about 20 minutes.

Please explain the process that you used to upgrade ... If you can. I am trying the standard MS website upgrade to an activated Win 7 Pro install. Is there anyplace to d/l an ISO to upgrade vice the Net?

 

[Rifter]

Took me a hour or so. I would have stayed with win7 but wanted dx12.

 

[boomerang]

Is there anyplace to d/l an ISO to upgrade vice the Net?

Windows media creation tool.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/software-download/windows10

Your choice of USB, DVD or ISO. I've upgraded several systems for friends over the past few days and have run into the exact problem you're having. I let one system run overnight and in the morning it was still at 99%.

Click the link and make your choice. It works great.

 

[Muse]

Why do we put up with this crap? There is only about 5 days left to upgrade ...

If only I could get my Linux distros to do everything that I need/want ... I could divorce MS!

Same here.

I suppose, if you're pressed, you could image your Win7 installation, then do a clean install of Win10 (I did that on two different Win7 computers 5 days ago), activate, and then restore your Win7 install and muck around with an upgrade. I presume your activation would be intact and you'd have any time you need to do whatever. Myself, I didn't want to mess with upgrades. One of those machines was FUBAR anyway, and the other... well, it worked, but why upgrade? A fresh install of Win10 is apt to work better, longer. I have to reinstall and ton of apps and utilities, it's true, but I already have my cant-do-without ones running fine.

The best thing is that the iastor() timeouts I was getting (running Intel 330 180GB SSD) with this machine (2-5 minutes) virtually daily have not persisted. I had an idea that this might happen, but I didn't really expect it.

 

[dud]

Windows media creation tool.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/software-download/windows10

Your choice of USB, DVD or ISO. I've upgraded several systems for friends over the past few days and have run into the exact problem you're having. I let one system run overnight and in the morning it was still at 99%.

Click the link and make your choice. It works great.

Thank you ... but using this still results in extremely long upgrade times? I left my new system running overnight and it finally d/led all the required content. Now I have to install. Wouldn't it be ironic if after all of this I decide to revert to Win 7???

 

[TeknoBug]

I did a Win 7 Pro to Win 10 Pro upgrade a couple weeks ago and it took about 40-45 mins, USB to SSD.

Why do we put up with this crap? There is only about 5 days left to upgrade ...

If only I could get my Linux distros to do everything that I need/want ... I could divorce MS!

Linux does what I need so it's my main OS, however I play games and use MS Office for work stuff so I run Windows in a VM with GPU passthrough so I can take advantage of my dGPU without ever dual-booting. Works great for me.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I've "done" four of these Win 10 installs now, and a fifth one with my cousin over the phone. It was at that time that I let him make choices on his own before I discovered what had happened. Nothing wrong, really, but he's now complicated his experience with a Microsoft Account and password.

It seems obvious: "Whose computer is this? Do you use it at work or school?" Or "do you own this computer.?"

Pick the "work or school." You can then set up your own account name and password as you did in XP, VISTA, Win 7/8. And you don't have to expose yourself to whatever you could expect with Microsoft Live Account.

But that's a less significant problem. We just felt uncomfortable "upgrading" to Win 10, even with the option to revert to 7/8 in 30 days ( or whatever.) So we did clean installations on every single system (including my cousin's) by freeing up unallocated space on the boot/system disk and using it to install Win 10 for a dual-boot configuration. And that type of installation doesn't take a lot of time.

 

[Puffnstuff]

My desktop and laptop, both core i7's, only took a short while to clean install 10 but upgrades take much more data into consideration so they obviously take longer as the installation has to migrate files and settings. My tablet on the other hand took an enormous amount of time to upgrade the first time. A clean install on it happened rapidly like with the other two.

 

[MustISO]

Please explain the process that you used to upgrade ... If you can. I am trying the standard MS website upgrade to an activated Win 7 Pro install. Is there anyplace to d/l an ISO to upgrade vice the Net?

A little late now probably but this was using the MS website upgrade tool. Did a laptop yesterday with an SSD and it was no more than 35-45 minutes from the time it started.