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Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path?

From Paul <nospam@needed.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path?
Date 2025-01-15 03:30 -0500
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On Wed, 1/15/2025 2:00 AM, Chris wrote:
> Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
>> On Mon, 1/13/2025 4:42 PM, 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?
>>>
>>
>> Prepare win11 media, using Rufus.ie USB preparation tool. You can run the
>> Setup.exe off the USB stick, when you are finished, and do a W11-over-W10
>> installation. A backup before hand, is recommended (so you can go back to
>> Windows 10 more easily). Rufus.ie is a web site in Ireland, and that's
>> the address you'll be entering in your browser. Current version is 4.6p (portable).
> 
> Thanks. Will have a look. What's a recommended backup solution these days?
> I have Macrium 7 free edition which I gather isn't supported any more. 
> 

I still use Macrium Reflect Free 7 and have it on a USB stick (you can do both
backup and restore from their Rescue Media). When making Rescue Media, you
can use WinPE5 or WinPE10 options, as both of those have USB3 support.
And WinPE10 as the flavor would be fine. Going out of support does not
affect the basic function of a "Full" backup.

While the media preparation process for making the Rescue Media includes
a "WinRE based method" for making Rescue Media, I haven't used that
since the program made a mistake, and mixed a 32 bit OS with some 64 bit materials
or vice versa. The WinPE method, even though it involves downloads,
just seemed a more solid method of making Rescue Media. You need Rescue Media
to do a Bare Metal restore later (in cases where the original C: is trashed).

Macrium had a problem back around Macrium 5 or Macrium 6, related to how
Microsoft manages $BITMAP or something. And that required an emergency patch.
That would be an example of how a Macrium 7 could "age out", if Microsoft
made more changes. But nothing like that has happened, so the Macrium 7 I have
here, continues to work just fine.

   Paul

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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
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          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
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