Cannot install W10 onto a Laptop

FatRakoon

FatRakoon

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A friend asked me to plop Win 10 onto his Laptop yesterday.

He has no Broadband, and so I told him sure...

The Laptop is a cheap and nasty Asus Celeron Windows 8.1 with Bing but at least its 64Bit.

Anyway, I fully installed all updates, and I manually made sure that they were all done, and they are now.

I have downloaded the full proper ISOs from MS and so I chucked the 64Bit one into a Virtual DVD with Virtual Clone Drive ( This is the way I have done it on ALL of mine - bar the Linx Tablet - so it works very well. )

It stopped at the ENTER SERIAL part...

AH?

Ok, I ran a coupel of tools that grab the Serieal from the BIOS and sure enough, the serials matched and so I used that serial, but it said the serial was not compatible?

Hmmm....

Why is this? Is this Laptop using a version of Windows that does NOT upgrade to Windows 10?

The small white Windows logo is NOT appearing in the Taskbar like it may do, and I cannot install it withotu a compatible key?

What can I do, or shall I just accept that its not going to happen on this?
 
Thats just it.

It does not give me ANY options at all.

I start the installer, it asks if I want to download any stuff to help the install... I have chosen to do this a few times and to NOT do this also, in the vain hope of any changes, but after that, the next screen asks for the serial number, and I can either enter that serial to continue, or cancel.
There is no skip, or enter it later or anything?, \nd the serial I have entered, is the serial number from this Laptop's BIOS.

I am aware that 8.1 With Bing should indeed upgrade and I have doen it a few times on other laptops, but this one simply wont play ball at all.

My mate needs it for the weekend, and so he has it back, but I have said to him, that I want to try it again, but this time, I will do a fresh install... I will do it with one of my own HDs for now, juist in case I end up wiping his disk only to find out the serial wont work on a fresh install, or if it just goes in normally, or indeed, if we plop in another O/S and upgrade that way... Naughty naughty like... Or, I might just phone MS and ask whats the deal perhaps, but its certainly got me annoyed thats for sure.
 
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