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upgrading to Windows 10
- To: Richard <http://www.juno.com/~w1few>, Richard <http://www.gmail.com/~w1fewa>
- Subject: upgrading to Windows 10
- From: Robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>
- Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 11:23:40 -0800
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This link:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/heres-how-you-can-still-get-a-free-windows-10-upgrade/
describes how to upgrade to Windows 10 for free.
I recommend reading through the entire thing. For example, it says that
you should upgrade your drivers and any BIOS updates before upgrading.
(Not sure that that's strictly necessary, but may be good in any case.)
You can do a full back-up of your hard drive prior to upgrading, in case
something goes wildly wrong. You can download and run Clonezilla from
https://clonezilla.org and burn it onto a DVD or a bigger-than-4GB flash
drive and booting into it. You should have an external hard drive at
least as large as the hard drive you'll be backing up. (You can also
back-up to a separate partition if you have enough disk space. I don't
recommend this because you'll only be able to back-up the partitions, not
the entire disk. If you do want to do this, you can use Windows 7's
built-in Disk Manager to create a separate partition and use Clonezilla to
back-up to that.) Note that Clonezilla is a bit non-intuitive, but it is
a free alternative. You can follow the directions at
https://clonezilla.org/fine-print-live-doc.php?path=./clonezilla-live/doc/01_Save_disk_image/00-boot-clonezilla-live-cd.doc