Got given this laptop, it has windows vista on it, it's quite old. I've tried putting windows 10 on it' but it wont let me says vista is incompatible with the installation, only method I can see is trying windows 7, but I can't find a download site for it (found some but will take a few hours to download ) anyone have any suggestions ? I know it's (like me) but seems a shame to throw it.
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Linux or bin it (recycle)
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If you're running the W10 setup from Vista itself that could block it. Create a bootable USB (might need to use Rufus and set as MBR/legacy to work with that laptop) then during the setup process, wipe all the partitions on the drive and see if it'll allow the installation then.
sadly I have come to that conclusion as well
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What spec is the laptop? A model number would help identify which CPU it uses.
I've seen Windows 10 install and run on some quite old laptops. But if the drive uses a 44-pin IDE for the hard drive, that's a sign it's probably past that it's sadly past its prime.
As suggested earlier, try a USB installation stick. If that doesn't work and the laptop has a DVD drive, try installing Windows 10 from DVD media.
I have a netbook which I use now and again, purely because it's nice and compact. But it only has a 32-bit processor, meaning that Windows 10 will probably be the last OS it sees - at least from Microsoft, anyway.
I've seen Windows 10 install and run on some quite old laptops. But if the drive uses a 44-pin IDE for the hard drive, that's a sign it's probably past that it's sadly past its prime.
As suggested earlier, try a USB installation stick. If that doesn't work and the laptop has a DVD drive, try installing Windows 10 from DVD media.
I have a netbook which I use now and again, purely because it's nice and compact. But it only has a 32-bit processor, meaning that Windows 10 will probably be the last OS it sees - at least from Microsoft, anyway.
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After googled found out old motherboards and laptops manufactured in 2003 had SATA and from 2004 had SATA II.
I still got my 2nd old laptop Dell Inspiron 17 9400 bought in 2006 had SATA II ports running Windows 10 on it with Intel Core 2 Duo T7200 CPU, shame Windows 10 is the last OS to run it and it cant run Windows 11 24H2 due to SSE 4.2 instruction requirement which the CPU did not have the instruction set. Here is NO WAY I will install Linux without proper anti-virus app, far too few people used linux now as anti-virus companies like Norton, ESET, Avast, BitDefender all had discontinued Linux support for consumers years ago due to lacked of demand. I used Norton 360, it supported Windows, MacOS, iOS and Android. I still struggled to find anti-virus app for Linux, ClamAV is utter useless failed to detected malwares I tested years ago on virtual machines.
Maybe I will install Android x86 on old Dell Inspiron 17 9400 laptop when Windows 10 extended support ended in October 2028, Norton 360 app will run fine with Android.
I still got my 2nd old laptop Dell Inspiron 17 9400 bought in 2006 had SATA II ports running Windows 10 on it with Intel Core 2 Duo T7200 CPU, shame Windows 10 is the last OS to run it and it cant run Windows 11 24H2 due to SSE 4.2 instruction requirement which the CPU did not have the instruction set. Here is NO WAY I will install Linux without proper anti-virus app, far too few people used linux now as anti-virus companies like Norton, ESET, Avast, BitDefender all had discontinued Linux support for consumers years ago due to lacked of demand. I used Norton 360, it supported Windows, MacOS, iOS and Android. I still struggled to find anti-virus app for Linux, ClamAV is utter useless failed to detected malwares I tested years ago on virtual machines.
Maybe I will install Android x86 on old Dell Inspiron 17 9400 laptop when Windows 10 extended support ended in October 2028, Norton 360 app will run fine with Android.