Hi Groucho, thanks for asking, getting on great now thanks. Am learning about a few of the extras, and glad that I persevered......its much quicker on start up and shut down too. All good at the moment.
mrsgee wrote:Hi Groucho, thanks for asking, getting on great now thanks. Am learning about a few of the extras, and glad that I persevered......its much quicker on start up and shut down too. All good at the moment.
glad to hear it... I'm finding many things I like about it including greatly reduced Windows Registry size.... giving faster boot and shut-down.
Acacia wrote:Recently loaded - touch pad disabled! This is a common problem
Had to buy a wifi mouse to get round the problem.
Is it an ASUS by any chance?
This might work
Go to
1. Start (Windows Button)
2. Settings
3. Devices
4. Mouse & Touchpad
5. Scroll down to Related Settings and click "Additional mouse options"
6. When the mouse properties window pops up, click on the ELAN tab
7. Click your device and click "Enable".
Decided to try upgrading my old desktop to win 10. The bones of it are 6.5 years old but its still a pretty strong PC. Asus P6T X58 motherboard. Intel i7 920 (Nehalem) o/c to 3.6Ghz (and under volted ) 6GB tri channel DDR3 1600Mhz RAM and Corsair TX 750 PSU are all from the original purchase in Jan 09. Since then have added (several) new graphics cards ending up with an AMD 5850 and replaced the twin Velociraptor drives in raid 0 config with a Samsung SSD for the sys drive and just recently replaced the CPU cooler cause after 6.5 years in Cyprus heat and dust it was not in a good way. Anyway a pretty decent machine still. It was originally on a (bought) OEM version of Win VIsta but I subsequently bought a full retail copy of Win 7 which replaced the Vista install from when it was first bought.
So I try the Windows update 'upgrade to Win 10' option. Take an full image of the sys drive to an external HDD. Run the windows update for 'win 10' it chugs away, all looking nice, reboots still looking nice , win 10 progress screen - copies files all ok, installs drivers , all ok, get to the final part 'configuring settings', over all progress 81%. Then at 33% on configuring settings it stops. I wait. 10 mins. Nothing. 20 mins Nothing, no drive lights, nothing. So I force close down the machine and reboot - it says install failed and restores me back to Win 7. I do a bit of googling and it seems anti virus progs can be an issue. So ok, I uninstall my anti virus entirely, go to windows update and 'try again'. It starts downloading the entire win 10 update from scratch - 2.7GB of it , that was all there before the first attempt ! So ok I let it do it stuff, start the update again. Again all the way to 81% / 33% and it locks up again. I leave it a couple of hours just in case (some people had reported just give it time). So I go round again but this time I download a USB bootable version of the install that can be used to update an existing system or install from scratch. Try it from the USB stick - same result. Go back again to win 7 and this time I strip just about everything out of the install. I uninstall 95% of all the programs (and after 6.5 years there was a lot in there) leaving little but my graphics drives. I use msconfig to stop all start-up services other than essential MS ones. Stop all start-up progs not already removed from the mass uninstalls. Run CC leaner to tidy up the registry and try the update again. Same result locks up at 81%/33%. This time I leave it 24+ hours - still no joy. I also try the 'force into sleep mode' that some people had found to work - but no joy.
So ok - I have to do a clean install. I can live with that and its probably not a bad idea anyway. Except you can NOT do a clean install of Win 10 using a (legitimate valid full retail Win 7) product code. You HAVE to do an update of an existing win 7 or 8 install or pay for a new copy of Win 10. Once you have done the update THEN you can do a clean install but that is not help to me because the dam update will not work. So OK, I have to first do a clean install of Win 7 , update it to SP1 and then see if it will upgrade to win 10. So I have my full retail boxed copy of Win 7. Problem is my old machine no longer has a DVD drive in it, that is now in my new machine. I could take it out of my new machine just to put it in my old one, just to install a clean new Win 7, just to be able to try and update it to Win 10, but really my new machine is so 'cabled in' to where it lives, connected to multiple monitors (and my occulus rift) and countless other devices , just unravelling all the cabling so I can remove the DVD drive is just too much hassle. So ok - I can make a USB bootable Win 7 install drive and install from that. However only have one USB spare of the right size and that's got the Win 10 install on it. So I make a backup image of that.I go to the Microsoft site where you are supposed to be able to download an ISO image of win 7 SP1 that can be used to make such a USB install medium. Put in my legitimate full boxed win 7 serial number and Microsoft says 'sorry not a valid code' ! Now I am starting to get pissed off a bit. OK so I have the original Win 7 install DVD , so I use an ISO ripper to make my own ISO file from this original disk, on the new machine that has the DVD drive in it. I then use the Microsoft tool with this ISO file to make a bootable USB. Chugs away 10%, 20% etc etc all the way to 95% and the it stops ! Arrrgggh. So I find a third party piece of software that makes bootable USB installs from DVD disks and run that against my original win 7 DVD. Works beautifully. So now I have a bootable Win 7 install USB. So I boot the old machine from that. Install Win 7 from scratch. Put in my valid product code - that activates fine and dandy. I then update to SP1 and put on latest graphics drives. I then take an image of the win 7 install from the USB and restore back the Win 10 image I made earlier. I then run the Win 10 upgrade from the USB drive on the old machine. Finally the update works and I have what is essentially a clean install of Win 10 on my old machine, all correctly activated from my old Win 7 product code. The whole thing has taken several days but I am finally there.
So running win 10 , legit and activated on my old desktop. I have to say I tried out the preview version of Win 10 on my partners laptop that was previously running win 8 and the update on that went fine and dandy without any problems but on my old desktop it has been a bitch and I still do not know what on the Win 7 install was causing the update to fail, only that a complete reinstall of Win 7 on that machine cleared the problem. Just starting to load back various progs I use on the old machine now running win 10 and so far it is looking and feeling pretty nice, though how much of that is just a result of the 'clean install' it is kind of hard to say.
The requirement to HAVE to update from a previous version of windows before you can do a clean install of Win 10 is a major issue as far as I am concerned, for if the upgrade just does not work on your current win 7/8 version, as it did not on mine, it becomes a real pain to get Win 10 on the machine, as I discovered. Hopefully MS will address these issue as time goes, either making the upgrade more robust or giving an option where you can just clean install Win 10 using your old Win 7 or 8 product code.
Keithcaley wrote:Cally, I agree with you.
I had been wondering whether I should 'bite the bullet'. but on reflection, I think that I'll leave it for now...
Well if the upgrade work ok its pretty straight forward. The problems come if the upgrade fails, as mine did. Even then to be fair it did revert back ok to my previous Win 7 install every time it failed. However over all my advise on a 'primary' machine is to wait a few months for things to settle down, which is what I am doing on my main primary desktop machine.
I have installed W10 successfully on my HP pavilion g6 laptop and I am very happy with it, but then I had W8 and I hated it.
I now would like to install it also on my old acer laptop. This uses the Vista op system. I have a legit W7 I can use. I also decided to put a copy of the laptop onto a WD Elements external hard drive. When it was nearly finished it stopped and said the back up failed and gave me error code
the system cannot find the file specified (0x80070002)
dippersgirl wrote:I have installed W10 successfully on my HP pavilion g6 laptop and I am very happy with it, but then I had W8 and I hated it.
I now would like to install it also on my old acer laptop. This uses the Vista op system. I have a legit W7 I can use. I also decided to put a copy of the laptop onto a WD Elements external hard drive. When it was nearly finished it stopped and said the back up failed and gave me error code
the system cannot find the file specified (0x80070002)
What do I do now???
I am not sure I understand you. Basically if you can get a validly activated copy of win 7 (or 8) onto the acer then you can free upgrade to 10. If all you can get on the acer is win vista you will need to buy a copy of windows 10 I think.
Sorry Erol, didn't explain it properly. I want to get W10 for the Acer, but first I want to save all its stuff onto the external WD Elements hard drive and this is where I get the error code 'the system cannot find the file specified (0x80070002)'
and can't proceed to W7 and then to W10.
I looked on MS for the answer, but I got totally confused!!
The local computer man in Yenierenköy doesn't inspire me with confidence!!
dippersgirl wrote:Sorry Erol, didn't explain it properly. I want to get W10 for the Acer, but first I want to save all its stuff onto the external WD Elements hard drive and this is where I get the error code 'the system cannot find the file specified (0x80070002)'
and can't proceed to W7 and then to W10.
I looked on MS for the answer, but I got totally confused!!
The local computer man in Yenierenköy doesn't inspire me with confidence!!
Poking around various sites with regards to that specific error the most common cause seems to be rouge / incorrect registry entries. However messing around in windows registry is not for the feint hearted and you can mess things up worse doing so if you not really sure what you are doing. If you want I could try and look for you remotely from here if you install teamviewer on the acer. If you are interested in me trying that send me a PM and we can arrange a time and I can explain where to download teamviewer from.
