Do I need to format the USB thumb drive to a specific format before making a windows media creation tool. The process is still on 0% and it’s been 15 minutes.
Brand new Kingston 16gb came as FAT32.
I could not find any suggestion at all.
On another note, the update area in windows says that my pc doesn’t meet min. requirements for win 11. But when I check the requirements page, my laptop does meet them all… Thinkpad W530 (from 2012 I think!).
Most of the software I have used will create the windows .iso file on the USB media without anything needed. As long as the USB drive mounts, should be good to go.
Edit. If not trying to install a fresh copy of windows you can probably use the windows update to upgrade to windows 11. I keep closing the popup asking to upgrade.
Shows the 540 will not accept win 11
Take redit for what it’s worth.
Thanks for the quick reply.
I cancelled, removed the usb drive, and tried it on another windows machine (desktop) and it showed 1% and counting within a couple seconds.
I’m trying to install as fresh and clean a copy of windows 10 as possible. So I chose the media creation tool method.
I’m using Shutup Windows 10 on the thinkpad. So it turns off various windows settings (updates, etc.).
I wasn’t sure if I should upgrade to Win 11 first, then …re-clean-install it (hah), or clean install Win 10 first, and then upgrade (I think this makes more sense…?).
I haven’t re-installed windows on this thinkpad since I bought it used over a year ago…
Everytime I look into this process again, I always end up with several “how to install/use/switch to linux” tabs. I despise windows. But my old macbook is too old - particularly for the way I use a computer now (bigger monitor, lots of tabs open, dead AMD chip bypassed by dosdude, so only the intel “gpu” now)…
Thank you. I’ll just try the clean win 10 install for now I guess.
Just make sure to remove all of the partitions on the hard drive during install and then recreate the partition and reinstall. I would just stick to win10. I need it(win10 32bit) for DOS applications my dad wrote for customers 40yrs ago.
I think the only reason I might need windows is for the odd android related thing, and…something else I might use so infrequently I can’t even remember at the moment.
During the install phase, right? (During install using the usb installer? Which just finished and is ready to use).
I would almost guarantee your 13 year old processor is not compatible. They are requiring TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot feature. There is a workaround for that issue. Check out this web page and it will explain the workarounds to you.
There are four partitions; system, msr (reserved), primary, recovery. Delete them all? I’m sorta following a video, but he left one (called unallocated space).
Nevermind. I think I get what happened…
Installing. Thanks for the help. I’ll cry if there’s anything else, haha.
next time you need to format the usb open an elevated command prompt and type the following commands:
diskpart
list disk
select disk
clean
create part pri (you can abbreviate, the full command is create partition primary)
format fs=ntfs quick
active
you can do some other things too but that is my goto for an install usb for windows. i hate seeing forums telling you to use this or that 3d party tool to format a usb when the command prompt is so easy. i did this for my son once and he was amazed, said it looked like a hacker movie when i just sat down and started typing away. that was the best compliment. i remember sitting at derbycon with a few friends and a derby camera having issues when a chick just walks by and does the same thing with the linux command line. i miss those hacker days…
Yea, good idea.
When I got the thinkpad, I had to spend… much time looking for and trying out drivers for shit I had no idea what it was (three device manager exclamation points, all under “other devices”, IIRC). I managed to find/solve two of them, and saved them in a folder.
Now, after doing a clean install of windows (up to date with all updates etc.), device manager lists five issues there. And one of the drivers I had saved, for the multi-card reader to work, doesn’t work!? Also, touchpad features wouldn’t work - I managed to find/guess right on that driver, I guess. I don’t want to use it, but I want it to work right when I have to. That lil red nipple, and the dedicated scroll button under it - scroll function wouldn’t work, does now though.
I think, one of the issues is related to some something that’s completely irrelevant/obsolete, because one search result in a forum - someone said it could be related to 56k modem, or something.
put linux on it. use xfce gui and in most cases you won’t know the difference. until you need to fix something. it isn’t that hard to figure out but sometimes a pain. i do that with some of my old computers to keep them around a little longer sometimes.
Sounds like you really need the old DOS programs… so, I cringe to suggest it. But there is a Windows emulator for Linux called WINE that will successfully run most DOS and basic windows programs.
Modern Linux like Mint and Ubuntu works really really well. And uses much less resources than windows.
So an old pc that has ages out of windows, can get new life with Linux and feel like a speedy new machine again
YMMV of course
Now KeePass won’t install, some VCRUNTIME140_1.dll error. Can’t even access my passwords now.
…SERENITY NOW!
Ok, got it resolved it seems. This helped: How to Fix a “vcruntime140.Dll Is Missing” Error on Windows 10.
@sfzombie13 @firehead Thank you.
I’m not quite sure why you say “sounds like you really need the old DOS programs”, why do you say that, and what do you mean? I’ve heard of WINE before…
IIRC, the only thing I thought I needed windows for was to more easily interact with android phone(s), and at the time I was interested somewhat in other ROMS and the software I think wasn’t for Mac.
I could’ve sworn there was another reason, another program, I needed windows for, but I cannot remember what it was!
By the way, when I did a little looking around at Linux as an option, I did think Mint sounded like a good started point. Then I got into some other videos about Manjaro(?) I think, and anyways, I just never got to it because, well these transistions are frustrating/tricky and there’s a bit of a learning curve. I do love the idea of Linux though.
I very much miss MacOS.
Thanks again, guys.
straight up ubuntu lts is going to be the hardest linux to break. virtually anything windows can run on wine.
I’ll have another look into it next week.
Thanks.
@Nitt sorry. It was the post I quoted above, I was thinking it was your post and that’s why I referenced to DOS programs…
@shade, true. Unless you need to interact with a USB device. Last time I worked with WINE, usb was still a no-go. But that was maybe a year ago…