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Installing Win10 on an old Compaq laptop
As an experiment, I'm trying to install Win10 on an old Compaq laptop that originally ran XP, but over the years, I have upgraded it to Vista, and then to Win7, and it still works OK.
It won't boot from USB so I made a DVD of Win10 and while it starts to boot from that, and puts up the little blue "window" logo, 10 hours later, that's still there and there's no sign of activity -- other than when I remove the DVD, Windows complains about being interrupted.
So, since I have removed the OS partition to make room for Win10 (it only has an 80GB drive), I though that (maybe) the following could work:
1) Boot from a WinPE disk to get access to a file manager
2) Copy the contents of the Win10 DVD to a partition on the drive
3) Right-click setup.exe in the Win10 folder and run it -- to start the actual installation
Anyone know for a fact this will NOT work -- and save me the time trying it?
I've also read that you can do much the same by mounting the ISO file, but that would mean I would have to restore Win7 to the PC and install an ISO mounting app (which I have) -- and the problem with that is that there is then very little room left in the "C" partition, and I want to do a clean-install, anyway,
Comments anyone? -- other than I'm "crazy" to even try this!
Oh, and BTW, it's a Compaq Presario 2580US laptop -- has a P4, I believe.