After serious thinking Tony Hwang wrote :
Eagle wrote:
Terry Coombs brought next idea :
Eagle wrote:
TomR formulated the question :
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Eagle typed:
wiped My HD and tried to load W7 ultimate, but the built-in modem
will not load. I then loaded w10 and tried to use My W7 activation
to activate W10, and was refused. W10 works, but get the activation
reminder on the desktop.

Any thoughts on working this issue?

If you have a valid W7 software and license key, I the trick is to
first just put the W7 on. Then do all of the automatic security
updates and within a week or so, you will get a notice that says you
can upgrade to W10. When you get that W10 upgrade notice, do the W10
upgrade from there.
Do not go online and download a W10 software or upgrade directly
since your W7 license key won't work for that. The built-in valid
W7 license key will only work for the W10 upgrade notice that you
get from Microsoft after you have had W7 installed for a while (a
week or so). With your W7 installed, the problem with the modem is
probably a
driver problem. I found a free driver updater software online that
checks for the correct drivers, but the free version only lets you
update up to two drivers per day. I can't remember the name of the
free program right now. Or, if you know the modem make and model you
can probably go to a
support website and download the correct driver.

If you post a reply back here in response to the above, I'll give
you the info for a very good newsgroup for computer questions like
the ones you have. It is a news.annexcafe.com newsgroup called
annexcafe.general.user2user .

Only problem with your solution is that the internal modem won't load,
so it's impossible to do all you wrote Tom. :/

Unless , like me , you have another computer that you can use to
download the correct driver and load it onto a USB stick . DUH .

DUH? I have the driver on one of My 8 gig USB sticks, and it didn't do
any good DUH.

Duh, you have to point where your driver files are(your USB stick) make sure
none are zipped or compressed form. Sounds like you are not really upto it.
Just download mediacreationtool(64 bit or 32 bit version) depending your
upgrade candidate. Run this utility, follow up step by step. If you are
unable to do this, you need babysitting help holding your hands..

lol You need to change that 'tude feller.
See you on the next topic.