I am trying to update a HP Pavilion desktop (Hpdsk) running Win7 Home Premium to Win10. I have already upgraded two other machines: an old HP laptop (Win7) and a newer Dell laptop (Win8.1). Both updated w/o problem.
The first time I tried to upgrade Hpdsk I ended up in Boot Manager with 4 options including "openSUSE 12.1" (I forgot it was dual boot)(I used EasyBCD years ago to setup the dual boot). Whenever this happens, I must choose "Windows Setup" and the machine reverts back to Win7.
No problem I thought, I will revert back to single boot config. Of course I used EasyBCD for this; the machine now shows a single option in Boot Manager: Windows 7.
http://superuser.com/questions/1093055/upgrade-to-windows-10-fails-on-windows-7-ubuntu-dual-boot-machine
^take a look at this link -- uses EasyBCD and it worked
I then tried the Win10 upgrade again -- with the same results except Boot Manager of course did not show openSUSE: Windows 10, Windows Setup, Windows 7.
I have no idea what is happening but I do not want to dual boot Win7+Win10; this is supposed to be an UPGRADE.
My suspicion is that the Win10 Upgrade is seeing a non-standard Microsoft boot configuration. I believe EasyBCD "does its own thing" with the BCD ... and does it better than Microsoft ... but MS will not like it.
How can I get back to a MS standard boot-configuration?
Any help will be appreciated.
The first time I tried to upgrade Hpdsk I ended up in Boot Manager with 4 options including "openSUSE 12.1" (I forgot it was dual boot)(I used EasyBCD years ago to setup the dual boot). Whenever this happens, I must choose "Windows Setup" and the machine reverts back to Win7.
No problem I thought, I will revert back to single boot config. Of course I used EasyBCD for this; the machine now shows a single option in Boot Manager: Windows 7.
http://superuser.com/questions/1093055/upgrade-to-windows-10-fails-on-windows-7-ubuntu-dual-boot-machine
^take a look at this link -- uses EasyBCD and it worked
I then tried the Win10 upgrade again -- with the same results except Boot Manager of course did not show openSUSE: Windows 10, Windows Setup, Windows 7.
I have no idea what is happening but I do not want to dual boot Win7+Win10; this is supposed to be an UPGRADE.
My suspicion is that the Win10 Upgrade is seeing a non-standard Microsoft boot configuration. I believe EasyBCD "does its own thing" with the BCD ... and does it better than Microsoft ... but MS will not like it.
How can I get back to a MS standard boot-configuration?
Any help will be appreciated.