This should get you past the 85% mark in the upgrade.
I also used the right-click menu here to uninstall any device drivers from them. (3) Launch the Device Manager and right-click Disable on all of these advanced devices that you can find ( TPM, Bluetooth, smartcard reader, touchpad). (2) In the Control Panel, uninstall all Dell drivers and tools for the TPM, Bluetooth, smartcard reader, touch pad, etc. The Windows 10 driver is backward-compatible with Windows 7, so you don't have to worry about it breaking anything. Download and run this, then run the installer within the exploded directory to upgrade the Dell drivers to this newer driver. Note that you want the ODE graphics driver. (1) upgrade to the NVidia drivers on the NVIdia website - the search parameters were: To get it to successfully upgrade, I needed to: It then rolled back, and I logged in again under Windows 7.
The first naive install failed at "85%" during the upgrade process. Be sure you are current with your updates before you initiate the Windows 10 upgrade.ĭespite there being no Dell-blessed drivers for Windows 8, Microsoft seemed to think that Windows 10 would run on the system, so. I believe some of my challenges with the Windows 10 install were due to a few Windows 7 patches that were not yet installed before I began the Windows 10 install process. The 4 years of cruft on my box was the reason I needed to reformat it a few weeks ago. If you have a cruft-laden box, you may encounter problems because of that cruft. I had recently re-formatted and re-installed Windows 7, and applied the SP and 270+ patches to get it current w.r.t. My upgrade process included 4 separate attempts to download and upgrade to Windows 10, with various Windows-Update-Diagnostics and Fix-Me steps in between. This post describes the steps I believe allowed me to do this. I just completed the upgrade of this older (2010) laptop to Windows 10.