I am up and running on my internet computer and still waiting on the music computer.

Jim Roseberry
Hi Susan,
Have you checked your C: drive for this folder:
$Windows.~BT
 
I never received any type of confirmation from MS.
On July 29th or 30th... the install folder was present on my C: drive.
You can also download and create physical install media (DVD or Flash-Drive).
 
Just be sure to have a backup image file before installing Win10 (just in case).
 

Hi Jim-
 
[Sorry for the late reply. I was offline for a few days.]
 
I do in fact have a $Windows.~BT folder on my C: drive; who woulda thunk it ;)! I guess MS just put it there in advance of the confirmation(?). I've read that others haven't received the confirmation email from MS and I'm in no big hurry (esp. since I have a dual boot system and I'm not absolutely sure how the upgrade works for those yet) so I'll wait for the email.
 
Thanks very much for the info-
 
-Susan

Thanks for all the replies! I'm going to wait a while, since I'm in no hurry to upgrade and I'd just as soon hear more, esp. from folks with multiple boot systems.
 
Thanks again-
 
-Susan

RSMCGUITAR
Not sure about your case Susan but for me (and a lot of others) the update failed.  You can check this by going into Windows Update and looking at the 'update history'. Mine clearly showed that the win 10 update failed.

This is what I did and it worked perfectly.

http://venturebeat.com/2015/07/28/how-to-force-windows-to-start-downloading-the-windows-10-update-files/ 

Hi Scott-


I do in fact have a notice in Windows Update that the Win 10 update failed (one for each time I've checked, in fact). What seems strange is that I'm still getting the same message I got in my OP whenever I check with no indication that there was a failure; it sounds more like a "Just wait" message. I'm also curious about the "$Windows.~BT" folder that Jim mentioned in post #7. How in the heck would the average user know to check for that or run anything in it?
 
At this point I'm not very confident that the update will happen for me, nor do I have any way of knowing why it wouldn't :-(. I guess the only thing to do is wait a while longer and then try a manual update, since I'm not getting any info from MS on what's holding things up if it's something on my system. 
 
Thanks-
 
-Susan
 
 

Susan I would recommend that you go to MS's Win 10 site and download the installer if you're really eager to get going. I have the little icon for get Win 10 and when I tried to use it, the program said it was starting but just sat there for 2 hours doing nothing. I also have about 20 entries in my Win update history that show repeated failures of the get Win 10 app. I downloaded the installer and it was all done in about 40 minutes. Mind you I went back to 7 once I identified all the problem spots I had to prepare for.
 
The roll back takes only a fraction of the time that the update took.

Susan - your current OS must be up-to-date for the install to work - make sure you have all the updates and hotfixes for that (i was missing one little hotfix for win 7 and it took me 3 days to find this out and get the install to work)
if you have, you can open a cmd prompt as administrator and type wuauclt.exe/updatenow which should start the win 10 install...

Hello Susan,
 Download the Windows 10 Creation tool. That's what I did, and it was easy, and worked perfectly.
 
https://www.microsoft.com...are-download/windows10

Hi John, mark and George-
 
I now have the Get Windows 10 icon in both my Win 7 and Win 8.1 system trays.  Both systems are up to date and confirmed ready for the Win 10 update. As I've said, I'm not in any real hurry to upgrade; I'm just more curious what MS is waiting for! I appreciate all the great info re manually updating and that's what I'll do if it seems like this is as far as I'll get with the auto upgrade on either of my dual boot systems.
 
Thanks!
 
-Susan

If you do an update on dual boot make sure you do it on DVD or USB key, oh and backup!  See post #17.
Forget about your win10 notifications that is just marketing.
Cheers.