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I had a similar situation on an old laptop and thought it was toast.
I created a Win10 USB boot drive (rescue disk - very small) booted from that on the broken laptop and had success installing Win10 and have been okay since.
I think you can get the tool at (a little different than what I did months ago):
Get Windows 10 - and create usb boot tool[^]
Good luck.
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Kevin Marois wrote: It was an upgrade. How do you go about getting a disk?
Google Media Creation Tool. Download it from Microsoft, run it and Select Windows 10, your Language and Both (x64 and x86). Either burn straight to USB or save as ISO and use Rufus to burn ISO to USB.
Boot from USB and install fresh, don't need a key as Microsoft have stored the hardware key fro your laptop.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Quote: don't need a key as Microsoft have stored the hardware key fro your laptop
Correct! But you will be asked for a key twice during the install. Just click on "Skip this step" each time. When Win 10 runs for the first time, you should find that it has been activated.
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Cornelius Henning wrote: Correct! But you will be asked for a key twice during the install. Just click on "Skip this step" each time. When Win 10 runs for the first time, you should find that it has been activated.
Not when I did it. No keys asked for even though I wanted it to so I could put in a Windows 7 Pro key to get the Windows 10 Pro installed. It just automatically put on Windows 10 Home.
May have something to do with it being an HP so probably has the key coded in to the BIOS.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Did you have Win 7 Pro activated on the machine, before you upgraded? As far as I know it will install the same version, Home or Pro, that was activated on the machine before you installed Win 10. At least, that is how it worked for me, even when I followed the upgrade with a clean install.
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Over two decades of dealing with computers I've learned one thing... never, ever do an OS upgrade. Clean install that sucker every time.
Jeremy Falcon
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The only 10 install I've had any problems with was a clean install instead of an upgrade.
No official W10 drivers and as a clean install no reuse of the existing 8.1 drivers, so the laptop was thoroughly borked up (no wifi, no keyboard, no touchpad) out of the box, and while most of the drivers installed cleaning the elephanting broadcom wifi driver's installer crashed on w10. 
Eventually I tracked down one that worked and got it working; but as always the only certainly in computing is that Murphy is always right. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Go figure! It seems that different machines can give you a "different than expected" experience at times! In my case Win 10 installed all the right drivers for all hardware items. I did not have to touch the drivers, except for the NVidea display adapter, that worked, but a later driver for it was available from the manufacturer. 
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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If it was an upgrade, try a clean install. That should fix it!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Funny, I got a message that said "SUCKER!"
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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: You know, the way I see it,
Should've gone to Specsavers[^]!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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I tried Ubuntu a couple of years ago, but after a lengthy installation process, I found that I could not get drivers for all my hardware. (One missing was for sound, as I remember.) I dropped Ubuntu like a hot cake, and will not go back!
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Quote: a couple of years ago
Hmmm.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I realize they may have drivers today, but considering the fact that I am happy with Windows 10, and the amount of effort it will take to switch to Ubuntu, plus the uncertainties around a new operating system, the switch just does not make any sense for me.
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: Microsoft is not anymore providing the "best" operating system out there.
Your wording implies they once did.
I'm not necessarily disagreeing, just wondering if your choice of words was intentional...
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Yup, the update is total crap.
I didn't even tell it to update; Windows 10 was just there.
It's like it was thinking "oh, your computer is idle? Let me upgrade it for you..."
My computer still boots, but it has a ton of problems.
Bad move, MS.
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I had a similar scenario with my Win7 Pro unfortunate upgrade and I left my PC online and tried every now and then to logon. During 2-3 days it was not responsive as in your case, but later Windows 10 started working more or less "normally" on this PC. It seems that Windows 10 needs indeed a few days to be online to "find itself" on the PC....
On the other hand I can confirm that the Windows 10 clean install works OK from start on. My co-workers were lucky getting recently now laptops with Win10 and I heard no complaints ...
Regards,
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Kevin Marois wrote: If it's not broken, fix it until it is
Hmm.
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To solace you: If you have upgraded once, your licence also is valid for a clean install.
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Your statement is true for the initial build of Windows 10, but I have been told here on CP somewhere, that the 10586 build will accept a Windows 7 or 8 activation key. However, I have never tried this and cannot vouch that it is accurate! It is safer to precede a clean install with an upgrade, even if the upgrade fails. Doing a clean install after an upgrade worked for me on all occasions, even once when the upgrade failed. The clean install did activate, despite the failure of the upgrade.
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
modified 29-Jan-16 18:26pm.
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similar crap experience here with windows 10, it is a shame, a bloody shame, considering reverting it all and stick with that what worked properly
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Anyone here ever used SoapUI?
I'm using it now (since yesterday) and I've already encountered some bugs (properties that were suddenly doubled and removing one emptied both, but removed none (had to restart); and property sources were looking good, but still gave an error, after a restart they appeared empty).
The UI is simply horrible. Not only is it clearly some weird looking Java application; there is no way to distinguish forms from popups; the forms don't scale at all, but they are way to small at startup (and size isn't cached so you keep resizing); it's sometimes unclear were one form ends and another begins; etc.
Anyone else has these experiences?
From what I gather it can do a lot (basically anything SOAP/HTTP/REST related), but the confusing UI makes the learning curve rather steep...
Ironic for an application that has UI in its name 
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What was the business requirement that sent you to try this product?
What other products are in the same pool, that you can test?
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