BSOD during upgrade on Dell laptop....I'm stuck here...

Okay, so here's what I did to my Dell Inspiron 15 7559:

It had Windows 10 Home already installed on it. But I wanted Windows 10 Pro 64bit. So while I was in the running system, I used Minitool Partition Wizard to format the C drive. Knowing that it was gonna scream since I was in Windows, I restarted the machine to allow the partition program to format the C drive upon bootup. It seemingly did although it seemed like to happened too fast. But I figured things were okay.

So I figured I was ready to install the new Windows 10 Pro 64bit version of Windows on the laptop now. I got my thumb drive and made it into a bootable Win10 device (using Rufus) hoping it would install a clean version of Windows. When I finally figured out how to change the boot sequence in the Dell BIOS to USB drive, I inserted the thumb drive into the laptop. Rebooted the laptop. And got a BSOD mentioning 'PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA,...

So, I'm not sure what happened. I figured it didn't like the hard drive that was on the system so I swapped it out for an SSD drive, then an SSHD and the same BSOD occurred. I even installed an M.2 SSD but the same BSOD appeared yet again.

Should I try the classic install method using a Windows 10 Pro DVD? I have an external DVD drive that I can use to install the 'old school' way.

I'm stuck. Not sure what to do now. I welcome suggestions.

I don't know what you have done but you could have just upgraded to the Pro version for which you need a license key. The simplest way to create a bootable installation USB stick is to use the Media Creation tool or install from the ISO file - see these https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2...dows-10-a.html and https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/9...-download.html

You will probably have to clean install Windows 10 Home which should auto-activate if it was previously activated. Then upgrade it to Pro from PC Settings.

Steve C said:

I don't know what you have done but you could have just upgraded to the Pro version for which you need a license key. The simplest way to create a bootable installation USB stick is to use the Media Creation tool or install from the ISO file - see these https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2...dows-10-a.html and https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/9...-download.html

You will probably have to clean install Windows 10 Home which should auto-activate if it was previously activated. Then upgrade it to Pro from PC Settings.

I will try to put Windows 10 Pro onto a DVD and seeing if it will reboot from that rather than a thumb drive.