I'm not doing a clone for three reasons.
It is a laptop so can only fit one drive at a time. Would have to buy an external drive enclosure.
The new drive is smaller than the old one.
I want to make an install with a local account only. When we bought the machine, Windows scammed my wife into creating a Microsoft account and it makes the computer complicated with all that one drive integration rubbish.
The installation media shows up alright, it just crashes when I try to boot from it.
Have been getting it from the official site. I downloaded the .iso also from my linux machine from the official site too, then flashed it to the USB from my Windows 7 partition.
But after spending hours doing research, and creating oodles of USBs, It seems that the latest version of Windows won't install on it. Other people have had the same issue. I downloaded version 1909 (obsolete) from a 3rd party site and flashed that using Rufus and it seems to be installing OK for some reason. Can only hope that I can upgrade Windows 10 once it is installed.
MS is F**ked, I can't believe that all these newer Windows versions are so difficult to install. I would be really tempted to not bother installing Windows at all if my wife didn't need it for remote access for work. Makes me fond to think of Windows ME. Quite frustrating.
And the laptop is from 2017, so Windows 10 native. Shouldn't really be having these issues installing.
It is a laptop so can only fit one drive at a time. Would have to buy an external drive enclosure.
The new drive is smaller than the old one.
I want to make an install with a local account only. When we bought the machine, Windows scammed my wife into creating a Microsoft account and it makes the computer complicated with all that one drive integration rubbish.
The installation media shows up alright, it just crashes when I try to boot from it.
Have been getting it from the official site. I downloaded the .iso also from my linux machine from the official site too, then flashed it to the USB from my Windows 7 partition.
But after spending hours doing research, and creating oodles of USBs, It seems that the latest version of Windows won't install on it. Other people have had the same issue. I downloaded version 1909 (obsolete) from a 3rd party site and flashed that using Rufus and it seems to be installing OK for some reason. Can only hope that I can upgrade Windows 10 once it is installed.
MS is F**ked, I can't believe that all these newer Windows versions are so difficult to install. I would be really tempted to not bother installing Windows at all if my wife didn't need it for remote access for work. Makes me fond to think of Windows ME. Quite frustrating.
And the laptop is from 2017, so Windows 10 native. Shouldn't really be having these issues installing.