I presently have a Win 7 Pro machine that I’d like to upgrade to Win 10 Pro.
The process you describe should work on it, correct?
I actually have 3 machines with Win 10 Pro, one with Win 10 Home, 2 with Win 7 Pro, an old laptop that I rarely use with Vista on it (UGH!), an XP Pro machine (well loved, but now only used rarely for a couple programs I’ve not been able to easily replace / upgrade) and an ancient but still runs fine for the DOS apps (and huge full length specific app [electronics testing] board in it). I find I prefer Win 7 Pro, but increasing numbers of websites won’t work on it and IE 11. (I detest “Edge”, BTW, and am not thrilled with Chrome, not to mention the fact that I’m old enough that I think I’m running out of brain cells and trying to be modestly knowledgeable in several different browsers, OS’s, etc., on top of everything else - personal, business, “outside” consulting jobs, Mom’s affairs, Dad’s affairs (elderly & divorced), family, etc... may make my head explode.)
OTOH I have a couple programs on the Win 7 Pro machines that I can’t get to work on Win 10, regardless of what I do with compatibility settings and such, and I’ve not yet found suitable replacements, so I’ve hung on to 7 Pro for that reason too. However, the machine I’d like to upgrade from 7 Pro to 10 Pro is my “main”, machine, so it’s time to do that... IF it is practical and I can keep all the other programs and data. (The couple programs that would lose functionality are almost not large enough to bother uninstalling, but I likely would just to reduce clutter.)
If keeping the installed programs, does the USB Flash drive need enough room to store them? Data — I would have backed up anyway.
Thanks.
I have upgraded Laptops running widows 7 to the latest with no real issues save some updates I got. Even put a Samsung ssd in one that is many years old and it is a flyer now. I have also used a Micron 2280 format SSD drive in one and it flew as well using a Sabrent Converter to SATA and it works in a LAptop and Desktop running Win 10 versus the Win7 machines they were
As to your initial question I know it works for Win10 home but not premium, although my research showed that functions in 10 Pro I would never use. When you make the USB it only stores the O/S and leaves everything in place, have never lost a file or anything yet. In fact I used the Media Creation Tool in place on the system and it went right through