Don't power down the computer during the BIOs update as this will ensure your system is rendered completely useless. Ensure both the battery is at full charge and the AC adaptor is plugged in when updating the BIOs on a laptop. That's everything done, you should have a fully functional system with peak performance. If you are experiencing any further problems, post on the correct forum ensure that you provide basic information such as what Operating System you are trying to install or have installed e.
Windows XP 32 bit and the model of the Dell e. Dell Latitude D Feedback for these wikies and your overall forum experience is welcome in the Has the Forum Helped You? Browse Community. Turn on suggestions. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. Showing results for. Search instead for. Did you mean:. Obsolete wiki: This wiki is updated to pdf format here Windows Reinstallation Guide and several other wikies are combined into this pdf.
Step 1. Back up your data. Step 2. Use Belarc Advisor Belarc Advisor will obtain details about your system. Step 3. Step 4. Step 5a. Once the model is selected you need to select the correct OS: Once you have selected Windows Vista look at the categories Click the category to expand it e. If you get the following error message: Press back on the browser.
In the address bar check the URL. Then press [Enter]. The page will refresh and look identical to before This time select Single-File download and it should now work. Once done press back several times to return here: Ensure it looks the same as before number of categories and number of drivers under each category , if not change the OS to BIOS and back to Windows 7 64 bit.
Step 5b. Step 5c. Driver Install Order and Notes There are a couple of unofficial driver sets listed for selected laptops and desktops provided by me. Step 6. You should get these two screens DBAN will then begin to securely format your hard drive. Step 7. Select boot from USB. This will begin the Windows setup. The first 2 screens will quickly flash ignore them. When you get this screen press Enter, you do not want to repair.
This will take you to this screen. Press esc and continue with a clean install. This warning comes up but I just press c. You will get a warning, press f to continue with the format.
The setup then continues. Select Add Select the correct one from your list. Enter the computer name and administrator password optional.
Select time zone, again mines is set to the U. Wait for the setup to finish. Click okay to change the screen resolution. Select OK again. Register with Microsoft if you wish.
Enter all the usernames and then select next. This takes you to the final screen of the setup. Click Finish. Step 8. Install the System Drivers Ensure you keep to the order listed above for best results. Select Continue Select OK.
Follow through with the setup. Usually a series of clicking next, next, finish and then rebooting. Step 9. Activation You will get a prompt if you need to activate.
Step Ensure there are no Errors in Device Manager Press the [Windows] and [Pause Break] or go to start, right click computer and click properties. Select the hardware tab and then click on device manager. Note restart your computer after installing all the drivers and then recheck for an error Step 11a. Step 11b. Step 12a. Step 12b. Step 12c. Note you get a 30 day free trial of each product; for the Actual Multiple Monitors after 30 days this will revert to the free version its worth having around The professional version is of course better and I recommend using it or Actual Windows Manager.
A01, A02, The higher the number the later the revision. Use your computer That's everything done, you should have a fully functional system with peak performance.
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Improve this answer. Molly Molly May be it wasn't but as of February this thing is an adware. It tries to trick you into installing browser bars, change home page, may be something else. After I carefully deselected all checkboxes it complained that it won't proceed further without me installing something. Couldn't even close it, only kill through process explorer. ArtShayderov I don't recall if unetbootin can put cd to usb including windows one.
ArtShayderov also maybe it'd run ok in a sandbox e. Show 1 more comment. Community Bot 1. Handsome Nerd Handsome Nerd 4, 16 16 gold badges 48 48 silver badges 73 73 bronze badges. Eduard Florinescu Eduard Florinescu 2, 7 7 gold badges 27 27 silver badges 44 44 bronze badges. There are a few things you might need to check first.
Depending on where you plan to install Windows 10, you need to check which version you require, Home or Pro. This offers the advantage of being able to keep a backup of the ISO image, as well as create multiple boot drives without having to download the image each time.
If you run into problems with the Media Creation Tool when it comes to creating the bootable flash drive, you can use the following method. In general, we found this method more reliable than using the Media Creation Tool to create the Windows 10 bootable flash drive, and ther are a number of other advantages to using Rufus as well. The tool will only create a single partition up to 32GB and then completely ignore the rest of the drive, and Windows-based operating systems can only handle a single partition on USB flash drives.
First off, we strongly recommend using Rufus bit version to setup XP on a USB flash drive over the other methods, as its success rate is much better. As far as we know, the bit ISO image of XP is the only compatible version that can be put on a bootable flash drive success for XP bit was limited. We also found that a lot of modern hardware refuses to detect the drive.
A number of systems we have tested this with had very mixed results. The USB media does work on a couple of laptops, but with other systems, it just boots up into a blank screen. You can read below for some more general advice as well.
This can be caused by a number of things. The most common is that your system is not setup to detect or boot from USB devices. Try a different ISO image if at all possible.
Attempting to install with your flash drive plugged into a USB 3. You may still use a USB 3. If no USB 2. This was mentioned previously in the Windows 10 section, but if you are creating a USB boot drive for Windows 10 and your 64GB drive is only showing 32GB available, then you need to recreate your boot drive with Rufus.
The Media Creation Tool MCT only supports drives up to 32GB, and anything larger will have a second partition made, which Windows can not detect normally but is still available if you plug it into a Linux machine for example. Generic and oh-so-helpful error. Failing that, try to download from a different machine if possible.
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