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Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path?

From Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path?
Date 2025-01-15 07:00 +0000
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Message-ID <vm7mes$2rq2u$2@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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Windows 11 24H2 User <fvgtgfrf@juiklopjhy.com> wrote:
> On 13/01/2025 21:42, Chris wrote:
>> 
>> So 2025 will be win10 upgrade year, so what's the cheapest/simplest upgrade
>> path for hardware and software?
>> 
>> I have a home desktop PC based around a Coffee Lake i3 which isn't win11
>> compatible. It's not often used, but I don't want to get rid of it so
>> what's the sweet spot cpu/mobo these days? I'd like to keep the RAM,
>> SSD/NVMe, PSU, etc.
>> 
>> Can I transfer my win10 pro license key to win11? What do I lose if just
>> use an unlicensed version of windows?
>> 
> 
> The cheapest/simplest upgrade path is to use the same machine but to use 
> the Windows 11 24H2 ISO file to upgrade. Even if your machine is not 
> compatible, the command I'll give you below will upgrade your machine 
> and the Windows 10 license will post no problems at all.
> 
> The method to upgrade is this:
> 1) Make a full backup of the hard disk to an external drive if possible 
> or to a separate partition;
> 
> 2) Download the full ISO from this official link:
> 
> <https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11>
> 
> Scroll down and look for: "Download Windows 11 Disk Image (ISO) for x64 
> devices"
> 
> You want to make sure to download the correct ISO. For English UK you 
> need multi edition ISO. USA have their own ISO. This is important 
> because you want to keep all your Apps and personal documents. Wrong ISO 
> won't allow you to keep any of the Apps but personal docs will remain safe.
> 
> 3) Now mount the ISO using Windows explorer and note down the drive 
> letter in the location bar.
> 
> 4) Launch cmd prompt as Administrator
> 
> 5) run this command:
> 
> E:\setup /product server
> 
> This assumes that the drive in step 3 is E:\ but change to whatever you 
> get on your system;
> 
> 6) Just follow the online instructions and in about 30 minutes you'll 
> have Windows 11 up and running.
> 
> 7) I forgot to mention above that make sure Internet is disabled while 
> you do this because you don't want updates to clog your machine.
> 
> 8) When the system is upgraded and booted 2 or three times, you can go 
> online and download the updates.
> 
> 9) This will work for you because it worked on my potato machine. You 
> have the full backup so you are not losing anything.
> 
> 10) In step 5, although we are using the word server, you only get 
> either home or professional version NOT SERVER so don't worry about it.
> 
> Good luck and post back.

Thanks for the clear instructions. Will give it a go when I have time.
Might be a couple of weeks.

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Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-01-13 21:42 +0000
  Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-13 17:45 -0500
    Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-01-15 07:00 +0000
      Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? Hank Rogers <invalid@nospam.com> - 2025-01-15 07:56 +0000
        Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-01-15 10:12 -0700
          Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-01-15 10:54 -0700
          Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-01-15 18:10 +0000
      Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-15 03:30 -0500
  Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid> - 2025-01-13 16:54 -0600
  Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? Windows 11 24H2 User <fvgtgfrf@juiklopjhy.com> - 2025-01-13 22:40 +0000
    Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? john@jeasonNoSpam.cix.co.uk (John K.Eason) - 2025-01-14 00:41 +0000
      Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-01-14 03:52 -0700
        Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? john@jeasonNoSpam.cix.co.uk (John K.Eason) - 2025-01-14 12:05 +0000
          Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-01-14 12:39 -0700
    Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-01-15 07:00 +0000
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