anotherwindowsuser
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Hi I am installing win 10 into the laptop which had win 8 on, win 8 run reasonably well, however win 10 onto a new hdd is taking over two hours, this is ludicrously long.
Did you verify that your system meets the requirements for Windows 10? It seems you may not have enough space.
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You have to upgrade 8.1 to 10 before you can clean install on new HDD.however win 10 onto a new hdd
You have to upgrade 8.1 to 10 before you can clean install on new HDD.
What would space have to do with speed? Anyway I think it's crashing from over heating in the cpu, the bottom of the laptop felt like a frying pan, I don't know why as I looked at the inside of laptop and it is very clean. I will try to use the startup help feature in the morning.
If you don't have enough space, the update will stall out.
If your laptop is that hot, I strongly urge you to find a cooling fan for it. Place it on a flat surface with the fan underneath the laptop.
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Compatible Devices | Desktop |
Brand | Toshiba |
Digital Storage Capacity | 320 GB |
Hardware Interface | SATA 3.0 Gb/s |
Form Factor | 2.5 inches |
Well I tried to use two disk ISO type from the free dos website, one was FD1.2 and the other 1.3 however on 1.2 it wants to install dos but not be a live disc and on 1.3 it will be a live disk however wont see the usb drive, i tried running it in vbox and even there it wouldn't let you add usb as an option so I don't know what dell's instructions are saying because they say to run it in safe mode and not to install it over your current OS.Linux won't upgrade a bios driver made as an executable in windows will it?
Edit: it turns out you can
I don't understand what you are doing, so many changes, so many errors, so many sidewalks, its a maze, but in general to upgrade an old laptop depends on the availability of drivers. First you should check the manufacturers website on drivers, if they are not available from there, your best changes are an upgrade from a clean install the previous / old version of Windows, I have seen installs where drivers are inherited from the old into the new W10 install.
Is there a process that consumes all resourses?
Are all updates installed?
Is there enough virtual memory/space in the swapfile?
You do have enough memory installed, haven't you?