Clean Install keeps crashing

[reido200]

Hey Guys

I decided to upgrade from windows 7 to windows 10 by doing a clean install. I used the windows 10 media creation tool to put the installation files on a usb. When I boot to the usb everything works fine right up to the point where the installation is about to start.

At this point an error screen comes up saying "DRIVER IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL" and the computer restarts. I have already formatted my primary drive so I cant revert back to using windows 7.

I dont know if this is also relevant but on my initial attempt to install windows 10, at the screen where you select which drive you want to install to I was getting an error message saying "the selected disk has an MBR partition table." and was unable to choose this drive. I resolved this by opening a command prompt and converting it to GBT. This is allows me to select my primary drive but the install still crashes.

I have also tried it using a different usb but the problem still persists.

Not sure what step to take next, any advice would be much appreciated!

Regards

Aidan

 

[Paul NZ]

Does your system support UEFI and secureboot?

And did you change the bootdisk to the flash drive in the BIOS, and boot from it? Not run it from within windows?

And usually if / when you do an upgrade you upgrade from windows 7 install Win10 so it carries the activation over to Win10. Then you can do a clean install of Win10.

 

[reido200]

I dont think my system supports UEFI and secureboot.

I have changed the bios to boot from flash drive.

Apparently it is now possible to do a clean install without upgrading to win10 first? It asks for your windows product key just before the installation starts. I no longer have the option of upgrading from windows as I have formatted my primry drive and now have no operating system at all on my computer

 

[Paul NZ]

As long as you have a key for Win10 it should activate