

** If you have had Windows update running and no prompt to upgrade to Win 10, that's a good indication your PC may not be compatible. There is absolutely no guarantee of an older PC running Win 10 successfully- although many do. Google to see if there are examples reported of your PC running Win 10. Kyhi's boot disk) and see what happens when you boot from it I would strongly suggest you first ensure your PC is compatible with Win 10. Others will need to help you on your multi-boot installation. How to create custom partition to install Windows 10 I understand it is possible to have the Windows partition ('C:') written to a partition you define as part of the installation sequence- a Windows 10 installation consists of more than one partition: read carefully. These refer to using unallocated space, not an existing partition. The clean install tutorial is here: Clean Install Windows 10

Hi, you can see the start of a clean install here from about 9 mins on: Windows Version 6.1 (Build 7601: Service Pack 1) I tried various other suggestions found on various forums with no luck. I installed Rufus and chose all the bios/mbr/ntfs options, but the resulting usb gives the same results as the previous attempts. Does this mean I can't install Win 10 on this system? I failed to find an update for my bios, which is pretty old. I read somewhere that this sometimes happens because Windows 10 needs uefi instead of bios, and it seems that my bios has no uefi capabilities - looking through it I can't see any reference to uefi, gpt, Secure Boot, legacy, csm etc. I used Microsoft's tool again to make a usb installer and get exactly the same results. If I leave it for hours it eventually boots back into Windows 7. When I boot with the dvd in my external drive (I don't have an internal one anymore) it goes to the logo screen with just the rectangles and no words or spinning dots. I used Media Creation Tool to make an install dvd, and altered the boot order in bios. I used AOMEI Partition Assistant to make a third partition of 148GB on the same drive as the other two versions.

My current setup has dual boot for Windows 7 and XP, and ideally I'd like to keep these as they are and add Win 10 as a third option. (I haven't installed 10 before - does everyone see this screen, with the rectangles and no text or spinning dots? if so, for how long? what does it mean?) I've been trying to install Windows 10 for a few days now and whatever I do I can't get past the black screen with the four blue rectangles that constitute the Windows 10 logo.
