“I have a PC with windows vista. Am I able to install windows 10 to it? If so, how do I go about doing it and not damage my PC?”
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Wish I would have read this BEFORE I bought Windows 10 to install on my 8 year old computer with Vista. I told the salesperson at Best Buy that's what I was doing and he said Windows 10 would work. it WON'T! And then you are out $119 because they won't take it back. I'm a senior so I wouldn't know. What's Best Buy's excuse?
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Hello there, If you want to install Windows 10 on your PC, here’s what it takes. Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster processor or SoC. RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) for 32-bit or 2 GB for 64-bit. Hard disk space: 16 GB for 32-bit OS 20 GB for 64-bit OS. Graphics card: DirectX 9 or later with WDDM 1.0 driver. Display: 800x600. Installing it will not damage your PC. We hope this was helpful to you.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.to get a full answer you would also have to know your hard drive, if your hard drive supports Vista and Windows 7 or 8 then you should be able to install. As for installing the only thing you should have to is plug in the install flash drive if that is what you purchased and it should install when you boot up your PC. IF not then you will need to change your boot setting to read flash drives before your hard drive. BUT DO NOT BUY UNLESS YOU KNOW YOU'RE MOTHERBOARD AND HARD DRIVE CAN HANDLE WINDOWS 10
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Get the WIndows 10 Home USB drive from Best Buy. Just boot the PC from the USB drive by changing the boot sequence options (check you manual). My VIsta PC has 4GB of RAM which was adequate to upgrade to Windows 10 and it is 6 years old. I took a chance even though the graphics did not really meet the specs for Windows 10. Here is what I have: Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family [Display adapter] (2x) Generic PnP Monitor (15.3"vis) Since you will lose ALL programs AND data, backup all your data and know where you can get the install files for your other programs. I recommend using Belarc Advisor, as I did, to take a hardware and software snapshot of your PC while it is on VIsta. Save the report file in a cloud account or a thunb drive so you will know what programs to reinstall. Be patient - it takes a couple hours or so to upgrade and for me a few days to reinstall all the other programs. My data was easy to recovver as it is all in Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive, so as I set up the applications, one at a time, the data was restored. This took a few hours per cloud drive too. Again, be patient and do one at a time.
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