Does anyone have any experience with HP pavilions? I have an old dv9500 and have been trying to install vista on it with no luck. I put the rom on a USB stick but when I go to restart it doesn't give me the prompt, no matter what.
Any help or insight you gentlemen can offer would be greatly appreciated since this thing is nothing but a paperweight to me right now and I'm losing my mind.
what tool did you use to create the drive?
Rufus
is the usb drive at the top of the boot priority list in the bios? or are you selecting it from the boot menu if you're doing that instead?
what could you possibly want to use a 17 year old os for
I'm pretty sure I've tried both methods and still no prompt.
Because W10 runs like shit on it. Really slow.
can you confirm the drive boots in another machine?
also did you set it up for bios or uefi booting? because this machine is old enough that it likely does not have uefi
get an ssd for it
any $30 little sata ssd will speed that thing up like you wouldn't believe
I actually haven't tried that. What do I do if it let's say works on my desktop but not the laptop?
Also I think it only allows for uefi booting. I'm going off memory since it's been a while since I've messed with it.