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    Default Upgrade W7 to W10. Why do I get myself into this situation?

    Brother in law asked me to upgrade his old W7 Toshiba Satellite to W10. No prob (I thought). Upgrade seemed to run seamlessly until the first boot of W10 where it failed and signaled incompatible drivers. It then rolled back to the initial W7 install but with a difference. The W7 was now NOT ACTIVATED. Looking at his documentation it becomes clear that the system was originally a Vista system which had a problem in 2015 and sent to a repairer in Mackay QLD. Documentation from there indicates they obtained a Vista recovery disc from Toshiba but it didn't work so they upgraded it to W7. They did not supply a product key with the upgrade. I have the Vista recovery disc but I don't think I can go from Vista to W10. It now seems to me the W7 used was bodgie. I can not now activate it to try the upgrade again. I still have the option of a clean install of W10 but of course that means loss of old apps and their data. Can buy a 3rd party W7 activation key online but again can it be trusted and can I activate an unsupported W7. Any suggestion would be appreciated. Brother in law is not particularly computer literate so trying to get him into newer hardware isn't an option either.



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    I would buy a w7 key online and leave it at that.

    W10 doesn't run well on old hardware, I suggest a min of 8gb ram and an ssd.

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    Might I suggest a suitable alternative.................... NAH! I'll get in the sh*t from those who don't understand Linux.
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    I installed W10 to my Toshiba Satellite some time ago. I had the same problem as you encountered.
    I remember I spent few days reading different articles before the upgrade completed without any issues but unfortunately, I don't remember what was exactly needed to succeed.

    From my memory I think I had to boot to safe windows with network and manually download drivers but don't remember 100%.

    Suggest searching for the error code (that is what I did) and you will see it is a known problem with Toshiba and solutions are published.

    BTW, as far as I know Toshiba supports only upgrade to W10 option, no clean install of W10. I am not sure if you can upgrade from not activated W7, probably not but worth trying.

    Good luck, W10 gave absolutely new life to my old Satellite. It runs flawlessly and much faster than W7.

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    No problems on my end upgrading from W7 to W10 on a Toshiba Satellite.. I only did the upgrade last month and it went smooth.

    As suggested above, Lookup the error code and go from there..

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    Check your pm's

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    I have the same problem, upgraded to W10 maybe 2 years ago after replacing a dead HDD (toshi satellite quad core, 4g ram) and ever since the wifi keeps dropping out, hardware not shown in device manage and every 2nd boot or so it comes back and works for maybe 30mins then disappears again.
    Thought about going back to W7unless there is a viable way to fix the wifi, it otherwise works fine.

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    run as admin

    sfc /scannow

    to check for any corrupted files

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    Got jack of it so just did a fresh install from the media download but still have wifi issues so will just go back to W7.

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    have you tried the latest drivers for wifi card ?

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    have you loaded the m/board drivers from the setup disk

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    Quote Originally Posted by hoe View Post
    have you tried the latest drivers for wifi card ?
    Latest i could find but now get a code 12 error for not enough resources for hardware.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dai View Post
    have you loaded the m/board drivers from the setup disk
    what setup disk, got this lappy 2nd hand without any disks. I downloaded the drivers when i originally replaced the hdd but they arent working.

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    Quote Originally Posted by loanrangiel View Post
    Got jack of it so just did a fresh install from the media download but still have wifi issues so will just go back to W7.
    Good idea.

    Windows 10 is a pig of an operating system.

    I use Windows 8.1 Update 1 on my Windows machine, Mac OS X on a Mac desktop and notebook, and Linux on my wife's, HP notebook.

    Mac OS X and Linux (both built on Unix) are far superior and typically trouble free.

    You can't beat them for reliability.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tristen View Post

    Windows 10 is a pig of an operating system.

    I use Windows 8.1 Update 1 on my Windows machine, Mac OS X on a Mac desktop and notebook, and Linux on my wife's, HP notebook.

    Mac OS X and Linux (both built on Unix) are far superior and typically trouble free.

    You can't beat them for reliability.
    True, with a caveat that in the Mac case you're talking a custom, specific hardware construct, and not the menagerie of hardware that makes a PC [which linux can easily/usually deal with correctly...especially older hardware]

    Here in this thread ( 2 posters with allegedly the same issue)...I'm not so sure ; code 12 infers drivers/registry issues, however loanrangiel's problem could be a hardware issue (wifi module going nuts when things heat up)

    As win10 is so convoluted and subject to misreporting problems (because the registry), my usual approach would be to put a live linux distro on USB stick (so there's no need to install OS), and boot that up just to check and see if the wifi hardware is working correctly. This has often saved me a lot of time, in the case where windows is too inept to be able to call out the hardware as being bad.

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