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Hi:

 

That usually means that the way you created the installation media did not work.

 

How and what are you using to install W10?  USB, DVD?

 

 

 

 

 

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I used the Rufus program and I created a USB bootable medium - USB was used.
Because I downloaded win 10 - 32 bit and 64 bit version together (from the microsoft site). Unfortunately, it won't fit on the DVD right now. So it might be worth a try to download both versions separately and burn them to DVD.

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I am not sure your notebook supports booting from a USB flash drive.

 

You need a DVD burner that can burn dual layer DVDs, and you need a dual layer DVD because the W10 ISO file is more than 4.7 GB.

 

Have you ever heard of Tiny10?

 

That is a stripped-down version of W10 where the ISO file would fit on a standard DVD.

 

What is Tiny10 (Lightweight Windows 10) and How to Install It | Beebom

 

I use Tiny 11 on one of my PC's that runs too slow with the standard version of W11.

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The option to boot from USB is there in Bios.
The installation files are successfully copied to the HDD, but then there is a problem at the very beginning of the installation.
As a USB medium, I used a USB SD memory card reader (instead of a classic Flash disk), if this is not a problem, but the files were copied and the installation even offered me the option to connect the USB.
Where can I get the Tiny 10 or 11, but in Czech language (Microsoft page)? This might be better to use here.

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You can download the ISO file from the link below:

 

Tiny10 (version 1809, 2209 and 2303) : NTDEV : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archi...

 

On the right side of the page where it says ISO file, click to expand that, and download the latest version 23H1 x64 if you want the 64 bit version (3.7G).

 

That will fit on a standard DVD easily.

 

Works just like W10.

 

You can add features to it.

 

For example, it may not come with Microsoft Edge, but you can download that from Microsoft.

 

Download Microsoft Edge

 

You can also add apps from the Microsoft Store that you may want.

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Sure, thanks, I'll take a look at the Tiny 10 and see what's better.
I may have just figured out the root of the problem, why the system is reporting a problem with the media drivers before installation. It was not possible to install with the same problem on the dv6700 as well, which was already quite strange to me. Instead of an SD card reader, I borrowed a flash drive from a colleague, and that didn't work either, immediately after removing it, I found out that the flash drive is USB 3.0. The SD card reader I used before is also USB 3.0, the laptop only uses USB 2.0 of course. A USB card reader with USB 2.0 is also not supported (apparently some additional driver is required). The flash drive that I use (but I forgot to bring it, or I also have the Win Vista one for the dv6700 on it) is USB 2.0 and it was possible to install the system on the dv6700 normally with it. So I will have to use this flash drive, hopefully without a problem. Otherwise, I'll try the Tiny 10. I'll find out tomorrow and the day after.

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Sounds like a plan.

 

Hopefully the USB 2 flash drive will work.

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It still failed, it was a big plan, but it failed.
There will probably be a problem in the creation of the boot media or actually in the fact that I downloaded both 32-bit and 64-bit systems as one ISO together. The bootable USB media for Windows 10 must be created with the FAT32 system, but Rufus offers me only NTFS format for the MBR system (the partition is larger than 4 GB).
The plan now is to download windows 32-bit and 64-bit separately, if it fits in 4GB. Total ISO was less than 8GB so I'll see. You wrote that it has more than 1 DVD, so I'll see.
But I previously installed windows 11 on the dv6700 from USB just fine, so that's weird (now it doesn't even work on the dv6700).

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I've never tried to combine two OS installation files on one DVD.

 

As far as I know, they have to be made separately--one for 32 bit and one for 64 bit.

 

Also, there should be no problem setting Rufus up with the MBR-NTFS partition scheme.

 

I just installed W11 23H2 on an old Dell d580s desktop PC with a Clarksdale Pentium processor using Rufus and setting the partition table MBR-NTFS.

 

You just can't set it up as GPT because old PC's don't support booting from a GPT-formatted drive unless they have a UEFI BIOS.

 

 

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I just downloaded this one merged ISO directly from Microsoft's site, because I chose it there (it was offered to me, so I succumbed). I didn't realize at all what worries and complications it would bring me. I don't currently configure it as GPT (although the FAT 32 option offers it there), I configure it as MBR. But the FAT32 option is missing here. Now I think the problem is that it forces me to configure the USB installation media as NTFS. Because, I read somewhere on the Internet that the installation media for Win 10 and 11 must be configured as FAT32, but maybe I'm wrong and the problem will be completely different. But I will try to solve it like this.
In short, during installation, it looks for some drivers - either HDD, USB or CD drive (but I don't have a drive there at all). And it is not possible to continue like this. The only thing is that the laptop would not like the 2TB SSD drive, but I have already installed Windows 11 on it without these problems (but not on this same drive, on another piece).  Now I am installing on the dv6700 special edition, I have postponed the dv1000 for now, it will follow immediately after.
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