Upgrading Win 7 32 bit to Win 10 64 bit

[dlgoff]

Don't want to derail the thread, but any specific reason to stick to old version of AutoCAD?

Yep. $$$ ...Cost.

 

[KurtChris]

I don't think upgrade from Win 7 32-bit to Win 10 64-bit is a right,even if i have not done it,to avoid trouble, it's best to do a clean install of Win 10 64 bit.

 

[Wrichik Basu]

I don't think upgrade from Win 7 32-bit to Win 10 64-bit is a right,even if i have not done it,to avoid trouble, it's best to do a clean install of Win 10 64 bit.

It's not an upgrade as it turned out later. It is a clean install.

 

[Nik_2213]

slightly tangential:
I was planning this Win'10 CAD-tower around an SSD C: and an HDD E:.

After doing some research, I learned my Win'10 x64 CAD programs all preferred to live on C:, as a lot of 'legacy' scripts & plug-ins would not play nice otherwise. Allowing for upgrades, bloat, suite libraries etc etc, the necessary SSD capacity was not affordable.

So, reluctantly, I reverted to 'Plan B', which was a trio of WD 'Black' terabyte drives for C:, E: & F:, the latter pair set to 'spin down'. My sprawling 3D model library & file archive live on E:, backed up to F: and external drive(s).

As regards migrating a Win'7 x32 system: I would be very, very reluctant to put Win'10 x64 on that old drive.

First, it has 'mileage'. Some years ago, I lost both a bespoke CAD-tower and a Browser_PC to a cascade of drive failures. Still rankles...

Second, clean-install or not, I'd rather put new OS on a new drive, move the old drive to eg E: but now set to 'spin down'.

YMMV but, for my work-flow, a couple of seconds saved at boot or load time seemed a poor trade for an additional terabyte drive. FWIW, I spent some of the savings on maxing-out mobo to 32 GB RAM and upping CPU from 3x2 to 4x2 cores...

 

[dlgoff]

It's not an upgrade as it turned out later. It is a clean install.

You've probably not had enough time to play, but what's your initial opinion of Win 10?

 

[Wrichik Basu]

You've probably not had enough time to play, but what's your initial opinion of Win 10?

A good opinion of it from a layman's point of view. I don't have a problem with it; it works fine. Windows had a problem of asking me to sign into a Microsoft account, explaining that life would be easier for me if I do so. But that was only the first few days when I started using my laptop. Now it has stopped bugging me about that.

Programs and softwares that I use the most - Matlab, Java (and NetBeans), LaTeX, Arduino - all work on Windows. I am not a bash programmer, so I don't need Ubuntu very often, unless I am learning bash programming for Android.

Recently after an upgrade to v1909, I found several things broken. After rolling back, everything is again going fine.

 

[KurtChris]

I am planning on an upgrade too. Already backed up important drive on my SSD but Windows Media Creation Tool keeps saying 'the process can not be completed. please try again'. I already did this multiple times, even changed another USB for the task. still no luck. Any better alternative to replace Windows Media Creation tool?

Oh...Windows Media Creation tool is the best option for upgrading to Windows 10,unless you're willing to install a clean version of Windows 10,it's not a bad idea, but you need to do more.So about using Media Creation tool:
https://www.uubyte.com/windows-media-creation-tool-guide.html
Or something about upgrading to Windows 10.
https://www.wikihow.com/Upgrade-to-Windows-10
A 16-18 GB USB is enough, at least the last one i used for this was 16GB

 

[Edward Apel]

Oh...Windows Media Creation tool is the best option for upgrading to Windows 10,unless you're willing to install a clean version of Windows 10, it's not a bad idea, but you need to do more.So about using Media Creation tool:
https://www.uubyte.com/windows-media-creation-tool-guide.html
Or something about upgrading to Windows 10.
https://www.wikihow.com/Upgrade-to-Windows-10
A 16-18 GB USB is enough, at least the last one i used for this was 16GB

thanks for the heads up. I will format the USB to NTFS as the post suggestion. Never pay attention to this issue and found out the iso file is over 4G.