OT: Upgradeing Windows 7 to 10 on a Dual Boot System?

[Tod Merley]

potential issues: mbr uefi - many ways to solve none easy.

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 7:44 PM, Kevin Cummings <cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
> wrote:

> On 01/14/16 22:19, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> > My Classroom Lab at the College has Lenovo I7 computers that came with
> > Windows 7 about 2 years ago. I changed them to dual boot with Fedora, and
> > just recently upgraded them to Fedora 23. Never had any issues with the
> > installation of the Fedora or doing updates. I wanted to check out the
> > Windows 10 upgrade process on one machine, but have run into all kinds of
> > issues.
> >
> > 1. Booting the Windows 7, the Windows 10 upgrade would just keep showing
> > the option to request the upgrade and I would be notified. Never got any
> > notification??
>
> I upgraded both my wife's and my mother's computers to W10 for them
> (both were windows only machines).  As I recall, at the time, Microsoft
> would "log" the update request, and feed the update to the computers
> while they were running over a period of time (kings a long and slow
> download to help spread the load on the Microsoft servers).  So,
> essentially, you'd have to boot W7, and leave it running until Microsoft
> gets around to downloading the update to the machine.  After that,
> you'll get both an email and a notification that the upgrade is ready to
> be run.  You can then spend 1-2 hours waiting for the installation to
> complete.  Along the way, it will reboot 3-4 times, and it expects that
> the reboot process will directly reboot windows to continue the upgrade.
>
> Based on that, you might want to disable the dual boot, upgrade windows,
> then re-enable the dual boot.  (At a bare minimum, you might be able to
> change the Grub loader to default to Windows until the upgrade is
> finished.)  This assumes that Windows updates work in your dual boot
> scenario without any problems, so the Windows upgrade should as well.
>
> > 2. When thru some web pages, and found a link that was upgrade now, and
> > it seemed to down and go thru the process of getting the Windows 10
> files.
> > Said it was going to reboot, and install. It rebooted, and still had the
> grub
> > menu, so selected the windows option, and it seemed to be doing
> something,
> > but then came up with an error message and said it could complete. Took
> me
> > to a web page, but of couse the error number wasn't anywhere to be found
> > there or on a search. Just restored the W7 image, so dual boot process is
> > fine.
>
> Sorry, I run any Winows images in VMs on my Linux machines.  I don't do
> dual boot anymore.  And Microsoft won't upgrade my XP images to W10.  B^)
>
> > Are there any tricks to getting the upgrade to work with a dual boot
> setup.
> > Don't know if the Windows 10 upgrade can not handle a grub boot loader
> > setup?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Use Linux for all my courses, but other teachers sometimes need to do
> > things on the windows, and wanted to at least take a look at it.
> >
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