durbandon wrote:
A brief history to get us both on the same page and accurately define my problem. Windows XP was going away. I bought Windows 8 for my desktop and installed it. I learned to use Windows 8. For my 80th birthday my brother brought me an HP ProBook 450 G1. It came with Windows 7 installed and upgrade disks for Windows 8. Since I had never used Windows 7 and was coping in Win8 I installed Win8. Both my computers upgraded to Windows 10. The laptop is a 64 bit machine while the desktop is 32. The desktop is considerably slower than the laptop so I seldom use it. I mostly just turn it on for a few hours a month to keep it up to date.
Thanks a lot - yes, we are now on the very same page - this helped![Smiley Happy]( "Smiley Happy")
I tried to copy some DVD movies for friends and they would not copy. I suspect they infected the laptop with something as I started to have problems writing to DVDs.
No, this is less likely. Infections though CDs or DVDs are not self-replicating, not self burning on DVD/CD and this requies more user-interaction. Although this is possible, it is less likely.
I tried to burn the Win10 64 bit ISO. I was using Roxio Creator NCT Pro3. That program suggested bad media.
No, leave Roxio away at least temporary. Take a look at this article >> http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/14183/beginner-geek-how-to-burn-an-iso-image-to-a-disc/
but scroll down to the bottom at a place where it says "Use Windows 7" and follow from there on.
Windows 7, 8, 10 all have built-in software to burn files to CDs or DVDs and they also have option to create bootable media (a.k.a. burn ISOs to DVDs)
Just right click the ISO file and choose "Burn disc image" and follow the on-screen instructions.
I was able to make music CDs and had bought 25 DVDs some years ago very cheaply. Bad media was possible. I created an ISO for 64 bit Win 10 on my desktop using Roxio Creator Classic and DVDs from another source.
All that is needed is to download the Windows 10 ISO and save it on your computer. Can be taken from here :
>> https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO
Try to download it again and ensure the connection is stable. Note that, the x64 version of Windows 10 is 4.1 GB in size.
You have told me I can use a Windows 10 64 bit ISO and reinstall Win 10. I shall try to do that. I am not sure how to set boot sequence. I entered <ESC> on boot and got nowhere. Alas, my faulty short term memory makes things even more difficult. I got the message to go to www.hp.com/go/techcenter/startup but found only more hoops to jump through there.
You can watch this video at YouTube >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZezmjKBqp-c
It is about slightly different thing. You can watch it all but you need to pay attention from the beginning to minute 1 to 2.
Basically, once you power on the computer OR after you restart it, keep hitting the Esc button to load options. You will some options such as diagnostics, BIOS/UEFI settings, Boot menu. Boot menu is F9 , so basically after the Esc you need to press F9 once to open the boot menu. Then, you need to use the keyboard up/down and select the DVD option. Finally, hit ENTER on it and IF the Windows 10 DVD is inserted and IF it is working fine, it will boot and start the installation process.
I have acquired more blank DVDs. The Verbatim pack of 50 were on sale so perhaps some are faulty.
Oh, no, 50 is not necessary. You only need 1 blank DVD of size 4.7 GB ![Smiley Happy]( "Smiley Happy")
Max 2 - if the 1st one is faulty. Verbatim, SONY and HP are my favourite blank DVD vendors, so Verbatim should typically work.
Perhaps my download dropped a bit or 2.
That is possible and happens from time to time especially on metered connections and huge downloads. Unfortunately, Microsoft do not provide the so called hashes (MD5, SHA256 or similar sums) which users can use to verify the integrity of the downlod. Unoffical ones exist but are too old and I am sure Microsoft did release updates post this period. So, you can only hope the download passes fine and check its size finally - 4.1 GB for x64 edition. There are some other possibilities such as trying to load the ISO on a virtual machine but let's skip this at the moment.
Perhaps the DVD drive on my laptop is faulty.
You can test it - you have 50 blank DVDs ![Smiley Happy]( "Smiley Happy")
- spare one to write some songs on it and if the songs start to play fine - the DVD is not faulty - it could be the download corrupted or something in the boot settings.
Let me know how it goes.
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