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I have updated all of my workstation computers in my office to Windows 10 with very little problems. Now it's time to update the main computer. My main computer has dual HDD in a RAID 1 configuration. Can I pull one of those drives, and update to windows 10 on the remaining drive and make sure that there are no issues. If so, I would reformat the remaining drive and replace it and allow the computer to restore that drive. If not, I can swap the Windows 10 drive with the Windows 7 drive that I pulled and resume use of the computer until I can plan for an appropriate upgrade? Thoughts? Thanks in advance for your input.

Hi Ed,

Before I tried your idea, I'd make a system-image-backup of the server over the local network to another computer with the free and simple AOMEI program:

https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/aomei_backupper_standard.html

Then I'd restart the server and go into whatever RAID program is running and make sure that both drives came up healthy.

Finally, I'd pull one drive, disable the RAID, and try the W7 to W10 upgrade . . .

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As I've mentioned, there can be complications on apparently identical computers doing the upgrade.

Most often, the upgrade ends with an error and claim that the computer can't be upgraded.

This can usually be fixed by an in-place repair-install that upgrades a subtly corrupt W7 system to W7 again, preserving data, programs, and settings.

Sometimes the in-place repair-install will also refuse to run, which can usually be repaired with driver updates, tweaking.exe, and startup settings.

After the upgrade, the new W10 system may work but refuse to install new W10 updates.

Which can be fixed by a W10 in-place repair-install (even though W10 was just installed, this is the fix).

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If the upgraded single non-RAID drive ran the office normally, I'd plug the second drive back in, enable RAID, and let it rebuild.

If anything ugly went wrong, I'd be glad to have the system-image-backup waiting on another computer.

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

Aaargh!

I was so interested in the RAID angle that I forgot that this is an AC server!

A W7 to W10 upgrade may cause AC to view the server as a new computer and require AC support to relicense it.

Thanks Carl,

I will try to get an image of the system before upgrading. In reviewing other posts, it appears that AC thinking that the upgrade is a "new computer" is random. I have upgraded 17 computers and only 2 have had issues. I have next week off, so this will be a good time to do this since I will have plenty of time to deal with any issues that arise.

Happy Holidays,

Ed

Are the two drives you have in RAID HDDs? Or SSDs?