Recent content by caturpiller

Ah ok, so since this is a winvista machine. I would need a new copy of win10. ok.

oh ok, so they don't make you upgrade on this . I was confused because because it seemed like MS wanted you to install on top of a previous operating system. So MS now allows a clean install from scratch. Do i have to buy windows 10 ? or can i use the media tool to install win10 to a...

Greetings all! SO I bought a nice 17 inch laptop off CL for 50 bucks. It has windows vista on it, which doesn't seem to upgrade to win10. I plan on buying a new SSHD for this laptop. How does someone get windows 10 on a new hard drive? If its too much work, I'll simply load Linux...

I don't suspect I was in raid. Yet what I think happened is, I must have installed win10 with the old drive still connected and win10 used the old hdd for its efi boot info. I deleted winxp along with that info and sealed my fate. I'll do the re-install dance with this turkey later. When...

windows key+x to bring up disk management Attempt to delete winxp partition , error Virtual disk manager: Format is not allowed on the current boot, system, pagefile, crashdump or hibernation volume. My attempt to delete everything in the xp partition managed to freeze the computer lol...

I looked up easyBCD Community edition and installed. 5 seconds later I had deleted the XP entry from the boot order. Save and restart into desktop. For some reason my bios has my sata option as raid. So now my boot up is; Bios/intel raid menu/windows boot manager. In windows boot...

i asssume the answer to the first problem is popping in the windows 8 install disc and using the utilites option.

hello, In an effort to renew my wifes desktop, I bought a SSD and installed Win10 on it. Everything is fine. Her factory HDD still has her factory winxp on it. I created a 25Gig partition and moved music etc to the storage partition of the winxp hdd. How do I remove winxp ? so just to...