This weekend I am playing with the Gateway SX 2110G given to me by a friend.
It has have a 400 GB hard drive that I have partitioned as a MBR type.
First I reinstalled windows XP sp3 pro 32 bit. After that, I install Windows 7 pro 63 bit. and it works. But it keeps getting updates. It is working OK.
Now I am stumped. I made a USB device using the media creation tool from Microsoft. It has 64 bit Windows 10. I do not know the build of version. It does not say.When
Here is the problem. When the PC starts to boot, I press the F12 key repeatedly untill I get the boot menu. It is rather confusing. Th USB device is called 'Kingston', the band of the USB device. There are two entry points of interest:
Kingston UFI
Kingston
If I pick the first, it goes through a lot of steps and then tells me it can not install on a MBR disc.
The other choice sends be to the Windows boot manager, which just shows what I already have, windows 7 and the older system.
No joy.This has me thinking that the Media Creation Tool will not let me create a Windows 10 package the can install on a MBR.
This is not a critical thing. I can live without an explanation. Just wondering what did I not see in the instructions. I know that I have installed 64 bit from a DVD. I have yet to try that again, but I do recall I did that last year. I think.
Any comments welcome.