Samsung nc10 install

First off I had problems getting the Win10 icon in the task bar and the automatic download did not happen so I decided to install the conventional way. As usual with installing an operating system be prepared for the protracted process to take several hours! With lots of long pauses. I chose to create installation media. You get two further choices: Create a USB stick — just insert it and it will be written directly to the stick as it is downloaded. Or Create an. I used an 8GB stick after completion just over 5GB was used.

Be aware it will overwrite anything on the stick. More of that later. When the download is finished reboot the Sammy and begin the Win10 installation. Note you may need to set the boot priority of the USB in the bios. After reboot it would not accept the Product Key although it is correct and has been working fine for 6 years. Removed USB stick and rebooted. Ran setup. Installation proceeded with the ubiquitous countdown timer which took a long time but no request for the key was made.

When it rebooted the stick was removed. The copying of files takes ages, over an hour at least before it reboots again. However it did come up with this screen towards the end of the process. Tried W10 just using the straight automatic process.

Took about 2 hours. W10 worked OK but as reported widely, there seem to be a raft of Privacy issues and settings. Edge seemed rather odd too. The NC10 booted a bit quicker than with W7 but otherwise no noticeable difference. There are lots of background processes you can turn off which might eventually give a little battery duration improvement. So I used the roll back to W7. That ran quite well and I had W7 again in well under an hour. Initially it seemed all OK, but the process had messed with a few things.

Windows Update still kept trying to install W10 updates for a while but seems to have stopped. Not sure how! I had MSE on it and that messed up a bit. Uninstalled and reinstalled twice and now OK. Windows Defender W7 version may have been implicated too. Ccleaner had been messed with too. Only a complete uninstall and reinstall fixed that, including reselecting some options.

Lastly, an IE11 reset to standard and reselect options seems to have stopped numerous crashes. So that might not be everything if you do a rollback after trying W Might try W10 again in a few months. The NC10 saved doing it on a more recent machine.

Beware if you try W Well I had another go with W10 the other day and this time it went much smoother starting from W7, just by deselecting the blocks set in that excellent GWX Control Panel programme then running Windows Update and letting it install W I just set up a local account not an MS one. Turned off the W10 Apps. IE11 works well, Firefox a bit slow, Pale Moon not bad.

Edge is horrible in several ways and not fast. Everything else I put on works, including the Win7 games pack that you can get free from Winaero. When the setup menu appears, select Custom advanced to initiate a clean install procedure. Please read these instructions carefully and completely before you begin installing Windows 7: There are important steps that you need to follow to upgrade from your PC from Windows XP to Windows 7 in order to preserve your files and settings.

Before you begin, you'll need to back up all your data to an external storage device, and you'll need all of the installation discs for programs you want to keep. Please make sure you have an external hard drive see details below. More detailed instructions are available at windows. Here are the basic steps.

Run Windows Upgrade Advisor windows. Save your files and settings on an external hard drive using Windows Easy Transfer windows. If you don't have an external hard drive you won't be able to use Windows Easy Transfer. You'll need to manually reinstall your programs, such as Microsoft Office, after you install Windows 7. You might be able to download some programs from the Internet. Sigh of relief! Grub uses the following system: hd0 is the first disc drive hd0,0 is the first partition on the first drive hd0,1 is the 2nd partition on the first drive, etc.

When the first restart happens, unplug the USB stick and you should go back into 7 to continue the installation. Stage 7 Windows naturally assumes that it is the only Operating System in existence, so kindly wipes out your Grub bootloader.

Then: sudo grub to get a Grub prompt root hd0,5 assuming Ubuntu is on partition 6 setup hd0 quit Now your Grub menu will be back and choosing the Windows option will bring up another menu where you can choose XP or 7. Note: you may find the brightness control doesn't work in Windows 7.

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