On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 18:33:54 -0700, T wrote:

On 2020-06-25 18:23, Micky wrote:
I tried to install win10 over win10, and I was able to get to 60% but
ten seconds afterr I moved the mouse so that the screen lit up again,
it crashed.

And even if it got to 99%, it says it's going to have to start
windows several times, and t here's n o way it coud boot even twice
in a row without crashing 30 seconds later for one of those times.

So I dug out the XP laptop to get back on line, and soon after that I
had a new plan:

Instead of installing win10 over the win10 IN the computer, I'll take
the drve out, put it in a dock, plug the dock into the XP laptop, and
run the win10 install program I made using the Media Creator.

That's one of the intended uses, isn't it? And since the XP laptop
never crashes, and iiuc it won't have to restart anything, since i'm
updating what is not the operating system in use, so it will go faster
too.

Will this work?

Will it work better with my win7 laptop?
(I'm still looking for the cord for that but I t hink I know where
it is.)


Are you trying to do a wipe and reinstall?

Sorry, in my mind I was conintuing a thread.

dI don't want to wipe anything, certainly not my installed program,
non-windows programs or my data or settings or anything else, but
there may be a windows file that is fowled up. In another thread,
someone whose name I can't remember right now said that he fixed a
problem similar to mine, BSODs with various reasons, by installing
Windows on top of windows.

So that's what I want to do.

When I tried to do it from the win10 computer itself, it crashed too
often to finish, but that won't be a problem if the windows drive is
in a dock. After t he install is complete, I'll put it back in the
computer.

This is an instended use of the windows10 installation file,
right??????

Maybe not so often win on top of window, but maybe more often onto a
blank drive, but if it is meant to do that, it will do this.