Hello, When I bought my Precision M6800 it came with Windows 8. About a year or so later I was offered the ability to upgrade this from the Dell 'My Products' portal. I've had to replace both HDs in the machine and have therefore built it back as Windows 8.1. Is there anyway I can get an upgrade from Dell to take this laptop back to Win10? Thanks

@thedavegraygood to know you were running Win10 on that system at one point, but that wasn't entirely clear from your original post. You said the system came with Win8, then you said 'About a year or so later I was offered the ability to upgrade this from the Dell 'My Products' portal.' You didn't actually say whether you took advantage of that upgrade. Not everyone who was offered a free upgrade to Win10 opted for it, after all, and if you did, it arguably would have been easier and clearer to say, 'About a year or so later I upgraded to Windows 10 through an offer on the Dell 'My Products' portal'.Anyhow, you can download Windows 10 directly from Microsoft here. The installer will include both Home and Pro, and if your motherboard doesn't have an embedded key (which it won't if it was a replacement), you'll be prompted to choose which edition to install. Simply choose Pro, and then as long as your previous Win10 Pro installation was activated at some point while your system had that replacement motherboard installed, it should activate again just fine.

Take it 'back' to Win10? Based on your description it doesn’t sound like it was ever running Win10. But if you took advantage of the free upgrade to Win10 when it was available, then you can perform a clean install of Win10 and it will activate fine. No need to start with Win8/8.1, since your system would have a digital license for Win10 registered with Microsoft. If you never upgraded to Win10, then you MIGHT be able to activate Win10 after an upgrade. The free upgrade is officially over, but some have said it still works.

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code upgrade

IHAC planned code upgrade to 5875.267.201; though its non-disruptive; i have few queries

Question:
In CLARiiON each SP's reboot and result path outage coming from that SP.

We have similar path outage from VMAX ?

whether We need to ask server team to be alert?

Any impact analysis documnet in powerlink available?

Thanks in advance.

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sauravrohilla
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Posted October 22nd, 2012 06:00
hi,

In Clariion, SP reboot should not result in Path dead (if PP is installed and host configuration is correct). Same is with VMAX upgrade, if host has redundant paths and multipathing is configured then there should not be any impact.

regards,

Saurabh
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Posted October 22nd, 2012 11:00
Hi pmenon5,

There is no need to configure redundant Paths on host during VMAX code upgrade, the reason is first code install on SP (Service Processor) and after that it will be loaded on directors or other components. This is completely online process and directors are not rebooting during it.

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MAwais
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Posted October 25th, 2012 06:00

Saurabh Rohilla wrote:
hi,
In Clariion, SP reboot should not result in Path dead (if PP is installed and host configuration is correct).

yes, the paths to the SP that is being rebooted goes dead, PowerPath will recover when it's back online.
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Posted October 26th, 2012 10:00
I agree with Saurabh. There should be redundant paths. In case customer has 2 HBAs, and zoned and masked to 2 FA ports, it will be a good scenerio, in which even if the whole Bus goes dead, you still have paths from the second HBA that is connected to a different FA port.

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