Upgraded to Win10

[alexham36]

Hi Guys,

My free upgrade to Win10 came yesterday, so I upgraded after midnight in order not to use up much of my bandwidth. It took nearly 3 hours. I have several HDs in my computer and the BIOS always defaults to IDE HD where WinXP is, which means that the computer cannot restart unless I am there to hold F8 and choose the right HD to restart in. Very boring, but I am glad to be able to report that it went well so far and all the applications I had in Win7 still work, including CanoScan Lide 20, which would not work in Win10 that I downloaded from MajorGeeks.

I have one potential problem in that the partition where the Win10 is now has only 15GB free space, so I will have to manage personal data and store it on other partitions and HDs.

If anyone has suggestions on how to "transfer" to a larger partition I would be grateful to hear about it.

Alex

[alexham36]

Further to the earlier message, I have something more to report. About 10 days ago I downloaded and installed Win10 from MajorGeeks. I could not activate that copy with my Win7 code and vikingken suggested that the activation code would apply only to official upgrades from Win 7 and, as this was a clean install, it could not be activated. Well, I upgraded Win7 to Win10 last night and at no stage in the process was I asked for the product key. I just logged on into the MajorGeeks Win10 and found that it was activated.

[mikkh]

Assuming you have other Windows partitions on the drive, you can redirect future (and existing) user folders to another partition - Pictures, downloads, documents etc

It used to be fairly painless to do this pre Windows 8, but it's a bit more convoluted now

www.tomshardware.co.uk/faq/id-2024314/redirect-folders-drives-windows-windows.html

Using this method you don't have to constantly check free space and move files manually - they are automatically redirected after using the move option

[alexham36]

Thank you Mikkh. Done it. Documents and pictures will be saved to the SSD drive where I have 100GB and is used by MajorGeeks copy of Win10.

[vikingken]

I would keep the SSD purely for Windows and save pictures and files to the mechanical drives. You have to remember that Windows needs room to work, so you dont want to bog it down and your Program Files soon use up the space. You cant fill a drive up to the top, even if it is a SSD and works differently to a mechanical drive.