Ideally, the imagining software should have the option to run from a bootable usb stick and restore an image located somewhere else than on your system drive (C:) Make a disk image of your current setup using whatever software you prefer. Accept that you will be doing a clean install rather than an in place upgrade to Win 10.Settle in for a process that will take several hours.PS, anyone remember these old HP machines? The upgrade to Win 10 was successful and the setup after the first restart into Win 10 was the same as booting from the USB first. It offered options to search and retrieve drivers for the laptop hardware components first, and offered upgrade choices for apps and files including “keep nothing”. That started the Win 10 setup process that was displayed in a standard window within the live Win 7 session. I had clean installed Win 10 from this USB twice last week, so knew the stick was fine.Īs a work around, I let the laptop boot normally into Win 7, then viewed the files on the USB stick with Windows Explorer and double clicked the Setup file on the stick. I tried all the USB ports, and got the same result. However, from the BIOS boot the laptop found the USB, displayed the Win 10 logo, then froze. It came new with Vista, but is running Win 7 now.Īs usual for me, I used a bootable USB made with the Media Creation Tool for 1909. Unit weighs 17 pounds! HP only made a few. Yesterday I was clean installing Windows 10 on an old 2008 HP pavilion laptop with a 20 inch screen attached via an large elaborate folding hinge. It’s probably common knowledge here, but I’ve not seen it suggested by Microsoft, and it solved a problem. Easy and convenient clean install work around on older laptop.
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