I know this could be a long shot, but hopefully I'm not the only one who's tried to do this. I wouldn't have even thought about it, except for the fact that this thing freezes up all the time when browsing, and I don't think I can find driver updates anymore. Also I know that my laptop was even older and it took the upgrade just fine, so I figured it was worth a shot since that actually made my old laptop better.
Right now I'm creating a Windows 10 boot disk on a flash drive, using my laptop. My biggest problem so far seems to be that for some reason, all of my 7 available USB ports don't seem to work. Anything I already had plugged in to a USB port is fine (keyboard, mouse, etc.), but if I try to plug in a flash drive or my phone or anything else, it pops up a little window that says "USB device not recognized - one or more of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned, and Windows does not recognize it. For assistance in solving this problem, click this message." But then when I click on it, it says no drivers are installed for it, but it doesn't give me an option to locate the drivers. Oddly enough, my keyboard is plugged in to the back of the tower and works fine, and it has its own USB port, which I have a 4-port hub that has my mouse dongle plugged into it, and both keyboard and mouse work fine. So why, when I plug my phone or a flash drive into the same 4-port hub, does it not seem to recognize that anything is there? And the 2 ports on the front of the tower and the one open on the back all give me the error message I mentioned before.
So maybe this is a combination USB/Windows 10 upgrade issue, I'm not sure. I guess I need to get the USB ports working so that I can use the flash drive to even get Windows 10 going. Does anybody have any advice on how to make my USB ports (even one of them would be fine for now!) cooperate so that I can get this upgrade done? Thanks!
Cross-posted to Windows 10
Right now I'm creating a Windows 10 boot disk on a flash drive, using my laptop. My biggest problem so far seems to be that for some reason, all of my 7 available USB ports don't seem to work. Anything I already had plugged in to a USB port is fine (keyboard, mouse, etc.), but if I try to plug in a flash drive or my phone or anything else, it pops up a little window that says "USB device not recognized - one or more of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned, and Windows does not recognize it. For assistance in solving this problem, click this message." But then when I click on it, it says no drivers are installed for it, but it doesn't give me an option to locate the drivers. Oddly enough, my keyboard is plugged in to the back of the tower and works fine, and it has its own USB port, which I have a 4-port hub that has my mouse dongle plugged into it, and both keyboard and mouse work fine. So why, when I plug my phone or a flash drive into the same 4-port hub, does it not seem to recognize that anything is there? And the 2 ports on the front of the tower and the one open on the back all give me the error message I mentioned before.
So maybe this is a combination USB/Windows 10 upgrade issue, I'm not sure. I guess I need to get the USB ports working so that I can use the flash drive to even get Windows 10 going. Does anybody have any advice on how to make my USB ports (even one of them would be fine for now!) cooperate so that I can get this upgrade done? Thanks!
Cross-posted to Windows 10