Windows 10: Troubleshooting Windows 10 Installation on New Drive After SSD Failure

Hi, and thank you in advance for your help.I have a laptop that was originally running Windows 7 but was forced to upgrade to Windows 10. I don't have a Windows 10 key, but I do have the Windows 7 Home Premium key printed on the laptop. The SSD has started to fail, causing frequent blue screens and preventing me from backing up or imaging the drive using the built-in backup and restore feature.To work around this issue, I connected the SSD to an enclosure and an external 2TB drive. I tried to use the built-in backup and restore feature on my PC, but it insisted on backing up my system drive an

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Installing Windows 10 on New PC?

I'm going to be building a new PC on Christmas and want to install Windows 10 on it. I have Windows 10 on my current PC, which I installed upgrading from 8.1 with the files on a USB. How do I go about installing a clean copy of Windows 10 on this new PC? I think I recall something about installing it once makes Microsoft recognize your hardware, but since this will be a PC I'm not sure what steps I need to take. Do I need to go 8.1 -> 10 or is there a method of going directly to 10?

 

New Secondary Drive Causes Boot Failure Windows 10

No, I didn't install Windows on anything - I'm saying that on my high-end Windows 10 Pro x64 PC, which by the way has Windows installed on a 400GB Intel 750 Series AIC, when I simply initialize and partition a new storage drive (HDD or SSD), just that, not put anything at all on the drive, just a new, empty, bare drive. When you first plug it in, a Windows dialog pops up, saying that the new disc needs to be initialized, so it can be seen by Windows Disk Management, asking if you want it use MBR or GPT partition table. Then I used Windows Disk Management to format the drive as NTFS in the full available size and assign it a drive letter (or leave it unassigned - doesn't matter). Everything normal, except the new drive doesn't show up in Windows Explorer (My computer). So I reboot, and the aforementioned failure to boot occurs. After I get back into Windows, by loading a recent system image onto my Intel 750 Series AIC boot drive, everything is working fine, and the new drive shows up in Windows Explorer as an empty but fully functional drive, with just the one partition, as normal (and I checked it with MiniTool Partition Wizard, no extra system or hidden partitions). This happened the first time with a 1 TB HDD installed to a SATA port on my motherboard. This latest time it was an SSD connected to my PC through an external USB 3 drive dock - with the same result and fix. Maybe I shouldn't use the built in Windows utilities, I should just use MiniTool to initialize and partition the drive, but I still want to know why Windows behaves this way.

 

windows xp installation and dual core am

could someone please list the steps they follow to install windows with a dual core processor and windows xp service pack to. I'm reletively new to amd dual core and i feel i'm missing a step. All help will be appreciated. thanx