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.
I tried that already with a samsung drive and it didn't help much.
Honestly HP is the fucking worst so if anyone is looking for a new prebuilt stay away from them.
>I actually haven't tried that. What do I do if it let's say works on my desktop but not the laptop?
well if it's a newer machine you can test if it's uefi or bios bootable, if it doesn't work at all then it may not be created properly, if it works on the appropriate firmware then we can focus on the old laptop
>Also I think it only allows for uefi booting
that's likely not going to work, then
I'm thinking maybe I have to do it the CD way, but I'll have to buy a burner first.
If that doesn't work then I'll probably give up.
maybe give ventoy a go first, i know it has bios booting support
I'll give it a try. Thank you for your help.
Did you try both legacy and UEFI boot mode in the bios? Did you try every USB hub (maybe one is dead)?
that model is from 2007, so it's a toss-up if it's UEFI or not, not everything was
Vista does support UEFI, but it has to be an SP1 or SP2 iso
i doubt op will really benefit from using uefi mode on this machine so i wouldn't consider it a deal-breaker if it isn't working in uefi mode
oh, has to be the 64bit version of vista as well
MS didn't think it worth supporting 32bit UEFI
if you are still having issues, i have had success with using PLOP (boot manager) on CD to boot flash drives on old pcs that didnt support usb
it's from 2007, there's next to no chance it can't boot from usb
still...worth checking out plop. it saved me a few times, which was enough for me to lightscribe it and keep it in the tools shelf
it is a pretty nice tool, especially for