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Ordered drive bay adaptor for PavNAS
Tried installing Win7 on HP Stream as MM backup machine
No dice - seems there's no Win7 drivers for eMMC, and drivers missing during install anyway.
Burnt a DVD! (It has been a while.) Before I found out about the eMMC issue, thought I would try installing from optical drive rather than USB.
T410 RESURRECTION! One of the three(!) T410s only exists as a parts-donor for the others; every one of the four(!) I’ve bought has had some little issue (cover or screws missing, cracked fascias, etc.) and one of them as ended up as the one with all the broken & missing bits. Then I thought: why not try installing something on it, like Windows 7 (as a back-up for the T60)? Utterly pointless, as I could have just put a different harddrive in one of the working T410s, but it’s a laugh innit.
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T410 log(ish)
Win7 failed to install using all-in-one (i.e. "choose Windows" version) microSD installer.
Even burnt a DVD and tried it, but same.
Downloaded a Win7 Ultimate SP1 ISO and Rufused it to a USB: success.
Running Windows 7! Keyboard & mouse functionality on this wonky old T410 is slowing things….
… and, madly, I'm trying DriverPack “Solutions” for drivers first (because I am lazy)
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Well, Driverpack did a few drivers and then I tried to activate windows using a couple of techniques. The first one seems to be corrupted and failed; the second one looked like it worked, but then the computer won't get back to windows on restart: A disk read error occurred. Apparently.
Don't know if this is activator related as I installed a lot of things since last restart, but it seems I'm reïnstalling Windows again…
It's possible (but I'm not sure) that this all occurred because I installed windows on an already-existant harddrive partition (i.e. one previously created in windows as a basic storage partition). This time I've deleted that partition and gone for the normal practice of installing upon unallocated space.
