Windows 10 Release - Discussion

Alright so the upgrade went just fine on my laptop. Downloaded and installed via Windows Update without any issues. All my programs and files are still there and it doesn't look like there's any obvious issues.

My computer is now completely messed up. It stays on a black screen with a cursor and the monitors have been inversed. Sigh. I'll work on it once I get home tonight. There's a few things I want to try. I checked it out this morning and it doesn't look good. It seems that the upgrade went throught, because there's a windows.old folder on my Windows drive now, but booting just shows a black screen with a cursor. I'll run a SFC and DISM offline to make sure all the system files are intact and work from there. Also, none of the Recovery Environment options: Restore, Reset, Rollback, etc. works so I cannot use them.

At worst, if nothing works, I'll just wipe and do a clean installation. Everything's on my HDDs anyway. I'll just back-up my AppData folder via the command prompt on a HDD to be sure I don't leave anything behind and start again.
 
Alright Corrine thank you. I'll give it a try tonight. I just don't know if the install completed or not but I'm sure it did.
 
It didn't work. Backing up my AppData to my hard drive using xcopy and the command prompt in the Recovery Environment, and doing a clean installation of Windows 10. No idea of what I'll do for the licence.
 
New plan of attack since it doesn't accept my Windows 8.1 product key: will do a clean installation of Windows 8.1, download the Media Creation Tool and launch the upgrade that way, then see if it works.
 
Finally managed to upgrade to Windows 10. Here's what I did.

Since the start, I've been encountering the error code 1900101-20004 when upgrading. For more information on it, read the article below.

Windows 10: Upgrade error 0xC1900101 – 0x20004 | Born's Tech and Windows World

My setup consist of one 128GB Intel SSD, and two 1TB WD Black HDDs. What I did is that I disconnected both the drives and my CD/DVD-ROM, and then performed a clean installation of Windows 8.1 on my SSD. I made sure that the SSD was partitionned to GPT first and using the clean command of diskpart on it.

Once installed, it asked me if I wanted to upgrade to Windows 10 right away, which I did. And here I am. Basically the trick here is to disconnect every drives and USB peripherals you have on your computer and leave only the drive on which Windows will be installed, and that should do the trick.
 
Aura said:
Finally managed to upgrade to Windows 10. Here's what I did.

Since the start, I've been encountering the error code 1900101-20004 when upgrading. For more information on it, read the article below.

Windows 10: Upgrade error 0xC1900101 – 0x20004 | Born's Tech and Windows World

My setup consist of one 128GB Intel SSD, and two 1TB WD Black HDDs. What I did is that I disconnected both the drives and my CD/DVD-ROM, and then performed a clean installation of Windows 8.1 on my SSD. I made sure that the SSD was partitionned to GPT first and using the clean command of diskpart on it.

Once installed, it asked me if I wanted to upgrade to Windows 10 right away, which I did. And here I am. Basically the trick here is to disconnect every drives and USB peripherals you have on your computer and leave only the drive on which Windows will be installed, and that should do the trick.
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Weird fix but at least it works :D

Still a lot of bugs, drivers, and software updates needed.
 
No idea what happened, but it allowed me to change the drives connection (plugged them all in the right SATA3 ports, like I wanted them to) and also clean my SSD and HDDs so I'm not going to complain. Just spent a good 30 minutes setting back various tweaks and configs and now installing a few essential programs but I'll do the big chunk tomorrow. My priority right now is to get my VMs up and running, along with other small productivity software so I can continue assisting in my Windows Update threads.

I have a GTX 670 and the drivers didn't want to install: not from NVIDIA, not from "Check for drivers" in the Device Manager and not from the Windows Update. Then after the 4th reboot, they installed by themself randomly. I'm now running my dual 24' monitors setup with high definition and no problem whatsoever.
 
Just realized that my 'home' desktop is using Microsoft Basic Display Driver instead of the NVIDIA Driver...

Guess that's something I am gonna have to take a look at tomorrow >.>
 
That's what it did for me as well. At first it showed up a NVIDIA GTX 670 without drivers, then it just showed up "Display" under "Unknown Devices" for whatever reason and finally "Microsoft Basic Display Drivers".
 
Aura said:
That's what it did for me as well. At first it showed up a NVIDIA GTX 670 without drivers, then it just showed up "Display" under "Unknown Devices" for whatever reason and finally "Microsoft Basic Display Drivers".
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Well... I'm not really sure what to do to fix it.

Your's fixed themselves after a couple of reboots, mine aren't fixing themselves sadly :'(

Eh, guess I'll find some way to fix it.
 
Finally managed to upgrade to Windows 10. Here's what I did.

Since the start, I've been encountering the error code 1900101-20004 when upgrading. For more information on it, read the article below.

Windows 10: Upgrade error 0xC1900101 – 0x20004 | Born's Tech and Windows World

My setup consist of one 128GB Intel SSD, and two 1TB WD Black HDDs. What I did is that I disconnected both the drives and my CD/DVD-ROM, and then performed a clean installation of Windows 8.1 on my SSD. I made sure that the SSD was partitionned to GPT first and using the clean command of diskpart on it.

Once installed, it asked me if I wanted to upgrade to Windows 10 right away, which I did. And here I am. Basically the trick here is to disconnect every drives and USB peripherals you have on your computer and leave only the drive on which Windows will be installed, and that should do the trick.
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Awesome job. So you did a clean install and it allowed you to "upgrade"? Did you boot to the Windows 8 media? Just trying to understand exactly the steps you used. Thank you.
 
I booted from a Windows 8.1 installation USB that I created, and the last thing it offered me, when checking for updates, was to upgrade to Windows 10 for free. So I accepted, and then it opened my session and the Windows Update panel, showing the download progress of Windows 10. I didn't have to update my clean Windows 8.1 installation at all.
 
Spoke to the people over at NVIDIA about my Graphics Driver issue for the home desktop (mainly my parents use it :/), seems like they aren't going to provide updates for that specific model.

+ a lot of people with NVIDIA Drivers are having issues with Windows 10.

Overall: Windows 10 + NVIDIA = Problems...

But I plan on getting a new Graphics Driver so there's no big issue.

Also has anyone noticed that people who used the upgrade system are having more problems that the people who did a clean install? :D
 
A lot of people with older NVIDIA graphic cards aren't able to upgrade to Windows 10 since the compatibility checker says that their card isn't compatible with it. So far it looks like they'll need to buy a new one. Does anyone have a link where NVIDIA state what is the lowest graphic card that will support Windows 10?
 
Aura said:
A lot of people with older NVIDIA graphic cards aren't able to upgrade to Windows 10 since the compatibility checker says that their card isn't compatible with it. So far it looks like they'll need to buy a new one. Does anyone have a link where NVIDIA state what is the lowest graphic card that will support Windows 10?
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Window's 10 Supported NVIDIA Drivers
GeForce 900 Series:
GeForce GTX TITAN X, GeForce GTX 980 Ti, GeForce GTX 980, GeForce GTX 970, GeForce GTX 960

GeForce 700 Series:
GeForce GTX TITAN Z, GeForce GTX TITAN Black, GeForce GTX TITAN, GeForce GTX 780 Ti, GeForce GTX 780, GeForce GTX 770, GeForce GTX 760, GeForce GTX 760 Ti (OEM), GeForce GTX 750 Ti, GeForce GTX 750, GeForce GTX 745, GeForce GT 740, GeForce GT 730, GeForce GT 720, GeForce GT 710, GeForce GT 705

GeForce 600 Series:
GeForce GTX 690, GeForce GTX 680, GeForce GTX 670, GeForce GTX 660 Ti, GeForce GTX 660, GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST, GeForce GTX 650 Ti, GeForce GTX 650, GeForce GTX 645, GeForce GT 645, GeForce GT 640, GeForce GT 630, GeForce GT 620, GeForce GT 610, GeForce 605

GeForce 500 Series:
GeForce GTX 590, GeForce GTX 580, GeForce GTX 570, GeForce GTX 560 Ti, GeForce GTX 560 SE, GeForce GTX 560, GeForce GTX 555, GeForce GTX 550 Ti, GeForce GT 545, GeForce GT 530, GeForce GT 520, GeForce 510

GeForce 400 Series:
GeForce GTX 480, GeForce GTX 470, GeForce GTX 465, GeForce GTX 460 SE v2, GeForce GTX 460 SE, GeForce GTX 460, GeForce GTS 450, GeForce GT 440, GeForce GT 430, GeForce GT 420

I also found this this article about how to fix NVIDIA Driver issues after an install of Windows 10 - Windows 10: How to fix Nvidia driver issues after upgrade
 
Well, finally today, I was presented with the W10 update. That went pretty well. At first my resolution was off and W10 did not recognize my 2nd monitor. That was irritating because it jammed all my shortcuts from monitor 2 onto monitor 1. But another reboot brought monitor 2 and the correct resolutions back - though I still had to manual put all my shortcuts back. And that's with an NVIDIA graphics card, BTW.

I was happy to see my Quick Launch tool return with all my icons in place. But it seems I have to pull the task bar up to 4 lines high to get the day of the week in there so that seems odd.

Was also a bit surprised (but not really) that Edge pushed IE off my taskbar. Easy to put back but then noticed the options had changed. Chrome, FF and PM all offer to open in new window, new tab, and private mode. IE just lets you open IE. Same with Edge. :(

On another site someone said their Outlook 2007 would not send mail after upgrading. They ran sfc /scannow and it was fixed. Mine works fine. My games I pulled into W8 from W7 work! :) So I can continue my run Spider. Even Gadgets work in W10 so I can listen to Pandora using the Gadget instead of the webpage! :)

I waited for Windows Update to offer W10 because I wanted to see how the majority of the world would be affected. So far, okay.

Oh, anyone found a suitable adblocker for Edge?
 
Hmmm, just noticed that bginfo from Sysinternals does not display correctly. Some of the numbers for my drives have double images and it still says Windows 8.1. Oh well.
 
Hmmm. I'll give SFC a whirl. That's for that tip Bill. [My Outlook won't send email...]
 

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