" comment (in the friendliest way possible) as I believe they are really only marketing statements from MS. I must take exception to your ".W7 is dead as of. My only "failure" was the HP/Compaq Presario SR1820NX which is 13 years old.
If Windows installs its generic video driver then that simplifies the whole process. I just love the challenge of reviving "ancient" computers. I mean it is 15 years old! His DELL desktop is only 11 years old. I'm still blown away by the DELL Inspiron 6000 notebook I upgraded. You never know with Windows, until you try. I still think it is worth a try once he gets his BIOS boot settings sorted out. Dell computers have a one-time boot menu (F12) that presents the other boot options without a BIOS alteration on just about all of them besides the Pentium III systems (which aren’t even USB bootable without Nick, Hardware age and API depreciation is the primary problem with going beyond 2-3 releases.Īs far as boot media you are better off using a USB drive. The problem is drivers go bad after 2-3 releases due to age and depreciated APIs and any Vista driver is officially 4 OSes old at this point.
Vista->10=unlikely to work (exceptions happen, but don’t count on it).Win7->10=Needs work (Check hardware compatibility change parts as needed).Win8->10=good (Part change generally not required).Practically speaking, the odds are generally not on your side. You generally need to pick up a used Win8 or Win7 computer to get anything acceptable or purchase a entirely new system based on a modern platform. Don’t buy a key until you see it works without issue (or if you did, don’t waste it). It is very picky about certain chipsets and these older systems are the most likely to give you trouble. Unless your hardware has Win10 drivers across the board, Win10 is not very likely to work correctly no matter how hard you try.
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