*headache* An “old” (more than a decade) Windows Vista computer ended up on my to-do list yesterday (NOT mine *heh* I’ve never had a computer with Vista installed.) It needed to be upgraded to Windows 10. Yeh, sure it could have just had a modern ‘nix OS installed, but the user wanted to see if he could use it once again for gaming (still quite a powerful machine with great graphics), so Win10 it was. But a direct upgrade path to Win10 from Vista just doesn’t work all that well, so. . .
Oh, wait. he couldn’t recall his password, either. Fixed that first.
So, as I was saying, burned a DVD with his desired data. Then. . . no, despite having it as an option in the BIOS, the USB image of Windows 10 for which I had a valid product key would not boot, so. . .
Burned a bootable image of the USB drive to a DVD R(DL)–the last one I had on hand (‘cos I just don’t use those much anymore *shrugs*). Got to 36% of files copied on the installation and. . . borked. Retried and. . . borked.
So, what now? Easy-peasy. Looked up an installation disk for Windows 7 Ultimate in my archives, copied down a valid license key and installed that. (I still have a few legitimate ones for Win7 and quite a few other M$ OSes and products, from “back in the day”)
As soon as it booted, I inserted the USB drive with a purchased copy of Win10 (with legit license) and Bob’s your uncle.
Coulda been a PITA, but was. . . doable. Now to use my bandwidth and data allowance to configure a desired software suite, make Win10 usable, disable all the “phone home” crap, and. . . will have a happy camper.
Fun.
More fun than I want to have with that sort of thing. I’m trying to get the “latest” stable MediaWiki installed on my website. Now that’s a PITA when you have to go through support chat to upgrade ancient services, databases, and so on.
I am thinking of switching from Brinkster to BlueHost. But there’s a lot of hassle to go through for that…
I have found Bluehost to be. . . OK. The few problems I have had (one ongoing simply because I just don’t want to mess with it right now) have usually been resolved with a quick chat session or phone call.
Very happy with my ‘new’ Win 10 PC running Windows on an SSD and putting Data on a 2nd hard drive. Boy it starts fast!
Glad it’s working well for you, Colin. Once I install Classic Start and ditch the Me$$y$oft start menu, I’m fairly happy with Win10.