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Installing 10 on an old BIOS system but Media Creation Tool failed
Happy new year, everyone!
I want to install Windows 10 on a new SSD on an old system, I used Media Creation Tool 22H2 to create a bootable USB, but it failed on booting. When booting, I could see the Windows 10 logo on screen but it just hanged at that stage for 50+ minutes, no loading icon (those dots in rotating a circle). My motherboard is quite old and pre-UEFI. I tested the bootable USBs on a newer UEFI system and they all works.
I've tried many different ways but no success so far. Here are what I've tried:
- Made sure my system RAMs are good, using MemTest86.
- Used Media Creation Tool 22H2 to create an ISO and copied it with Rufus. However, Rufus only makes NTFS USBs when copying an ISO. The result is the same—booting hanging at logo
Here are what I'm going to try, not sure if they make sense:
- Use a different ISO to USB tool to burn the ISO to a FAT32 USB, hopefully my BIOS can boot with it.
- Clone the Window 7 partition from my current working HDD to the empty new SSD -> boot with the Win7 on the SSD -> run the setup.exe on the install USB -> upgrade the SSD Win7 to Win10. Not sure if this works? I'm also concerned that this won't be a clean installation.
- Burn the ISO to a DVD+R or DVD-R and install from there. I'm trying to avoid this because I don't know if my very old DVD RW drive still works and I don't have any DVD+/-R discs at hand.
Any thoughts on how I can successfully install Windows 10 on my decade-plus old system? Any help is appreciated and I thank you in advance!
My specs:
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate, SP1
CPU: Intel Core i7-990X
MB: ASUS P6T SE
Target Install Drive: Crucial MX500 1 TB SATA SSD
Last edited by alienboy; 01 Jan 2024 at 21:20. Reason: add more info