Windows 10: Laptop Driver & Clean Installation issues

Heya. As per guidelines, I'll do my best to elaborate as clearly as I can. I'll also try and explain all the events leading up to it.


So! I've had this Laptop for about... two years? Three years? It worked fine until about six months or so ago. Randomly, it just started to crash upon starting up. Nothing too big, I couldn't fix it regardless of the thirty attempts using online methods, so I did the easy way out: a clean installation of Windows 10 via USB. Previously, I already had Windows 10 installed on the laptop. It worked like a charm, everything on it functioned just as well as before. Skip forward a bit, and for some unknown reason, my laptop repeated this again I was pretty cautious about what I downloaded after the first time. This is where the errors started popping up; this time, when I went to repair it via Clean Installation, it went smoothly... up until it finished the installation and reset. Once it resets and enters the next phase Getting Devices Ready it freezes completely. Rebooting it causes me to get an error which tells me the installation was corrupted or something I don't fully remember, I would check but I'm currently using the laptop to post this. That's where I'm at now. Unable to cleanly and properly install windows. I have, however, figured a workaround.


Once I reach the error code of being unable to install Windows, by pressing SHIFT+F10, I can enter a command prompt. Entering "regedit" and navigating through to the "setup.exe" and changing the value from "1" to "3" allows me to boot past this, and continue setting everything up like normal. Here comes the kicker though: it seems as if I don't install windows properly i.e. figuring a way beyond the Getting Devices Ready freeze my drivers aren't working properly. The two drivers that aren't quite what I remember are the Display Driver, which prior to all these issues supported OpenGL yet no longer supports this, and the Network Adapter, which no longer functions, in which case I'm forced to resort to USB tethering via Galaxy S10. My laptop also refuses to allow Bluetooth, too. It does not show on anything, and picks up nothing.


TL;DR My laptop freezes at "Getting Devices Ready" and using regedit to boot past errors breaks my drivers. Any suggestions would be highly appreciated.

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Cleaning off a Mac Laptop

cleaning it?

Step 1: buy about a half gallon of gasoline.

Step 2: douse laptop in gasoline.

Step 3: toss a burning match onto laptop.

Step 4: watch the fire clense your laptop.

 

Clean Install Workaround for Vista

You may remember this news story on techPowerUp! a couple of days ago relating to the lack of clean installs when using the Upgrade Editions of Vista, which required an old OS to be installed. However, Paul Thurrott has managed to find a workaround for this issue, which ironically lets users do a clean install Vista without any previous version of Windows, albeit a little tedious. Here are the steps:

• Boot from the Windows Vista Upgrade DVD as normal
• When prompted for a product code, leave this blank
• Select the version of Vista you have purchased and let Vista install
• When you boot to your desktop for the first time, run the Vista setup from Windows
• This time enter your product key
• When asked whether you want to do an Upgrade of Custom install, select custom and choose a clean install
• Windows will now install for a second time and you should be able to activate it

Remember, these steps are only advised for use in order to achieve a clean install of Vista, it is only legal to use the upgrade editions if you have previously purchased the appropriate version of Windows.

Source: DailyTech

 

Windows 7 wont install drivers

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If you having an issue installing a driver that worked before you formatted or wont install on a fresh build, sometimes this means hardware damage