Error encountered during installation of Windows 10 on an older device.
Error encountered during installation of Windows 10 on an older device.
Hey people of the internet! I've got a computer that may be old, but is well within the specs for running windows 10 (I have even put windows 10 on a pc slower than this.) The beast of a pc has: A Pentium dual core processor 3GB of ram An OEM ati gpu that came out of an old xps 420 (the dankest computer on the market). It is an old gateway and if you need anymore specs I can provide them. It is currently running windows vista however vista is extremely outdated and refuses to find the driver for the gpu and networking card which I know windows 10 has done in the past with those devices. However when I try to boot from a windows 10 flash drive I get a bios error "invalid partition table" and nothing more. I've never seen this error before, even installing windows 10 on an even more outdated laptop. Is there some sort of setting that I need to change in the bios or something else that I need to do? Will this mb just not support ntfs (what I'm guessing the windows drive is formatted in), and is it just a lost cause? idk
It fails to progress beyond the boot menu, never letting you decide between 32 or 64-bit options.
Do you have a functional cursor? Do you have a DVD to test or a network boot server available?
The bios rejects the bootable usb drive. Consider using another tool like rufus to format it.