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Recover Files after upgrade to Win 10 Home from Win 7 Ultimate

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I have Win 7 Uliimate on my computer and I want to upgrade to Win 10 Home (32/64). The installation says that my files will be lost. 

I have a Full PC backup in Acronis 2016 

Will I be able to recover my files and programs?

Richard Park

 

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Hi Richard,

if I understand you right, you want to know if you can recover to Win 7 Ultimate with all you data, if something goes wrong?

Sure, you can, but Win 10 will delete all your files for a clean installation.

So you have to recovery all your backuped files after upgrade.

To be sure that nothing gets lost, make a manual backup immediately before upgrade and very important, verify your backup also before!

You can recover your files, but not the programs.

If you are upgrading, I don't see why you would lose files and applications.  In order to "upgrade" though, you, must do the upgrade from within Windows 7.  If you run a Windows 10 installer from the preboot environment (booting into your Windows 10 installer), then you will get a fresh install and be starting fresh with no data or apps.

You can recover DATA from an Acronis backup if you go the fresh install of Acronis - pictures, files, movies, music, etc.  It is not possible to restore applications though as they would be restored as data and be missing associated services and registry keys as a result.

Take a full disk image before you upgrade to Windows 10.  Then upgrade by starting the process in Windows 7 and you should retain all apps and settings when the upgrade is complete.  If there are any incompatible applications in Windows 10, after the upgrade process, it will tell you which ones could not be ported over. 

I have Windows 7 Ultimate on my computer. I want to upgrade to Window 10 Home.

During the upgrade, MS tells me all will be lost because the verions (Ultimate vs Home) are different.

Is there any way, with Acronis, to get both programs and data back?

Acronis says no.

 

Dick Park

 

Why would you not upgrade to Windows 10 Pro?  Windows 7 Ultimate upgrade Path is Windows 10 Pro.  If you missed the free upgrade and have chosen to purhcase Windows 10 Home instead, then no, you cannot restore programs/applications.  Acronis will allow you to restore data, but will not restore application registry keys, services and other "appdata" files and folders that may have been created during the application original installation.  Windows used to offer a user migration assistant tool, but dropped it in Windows 10. 

Why would you not upgrade to Windows 10 Pro?

I will  but I bought Home before I knew about the incompatibility. Just trying to save $200. :)