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    T500 Windows 10 Upgrade Failure

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by akadoublej, Jul 31, 2015.

  1. akadoublej

    akadoublej Notebook Evangelist

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    I went through the install process the other day to upgrade from Windows 7 (32 bit) to Windows 10 (32 bit) on my T500. Everything seemed to be going well until the machine rebooted.

    Then after the Thinkpad splash screen, I received some sort of error message. Unfortunately I did not take a picture of it but I think it was telling me that I was missing something and asking me to insert a disc with the operating system. I (think) I turned off the machine and rebooted it. It loaded up Windows 7 and gave no indication that I had tried to upgrade to Windows 10.

    Does anyone know what happened and how to fix it? I think I have the latest set of drivers available from Lenovo for Windows 7.
     
    akadoublej, Jul 31, 2015
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  2. nforce4max

    nforce4max Notebook Consultant

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    The upgrade process for windows 10 bricks on newer machines some have experienced including desktops, sometimes it is anti-virus causing problems oddly enough. You can manually download windows 10 (from microsoft) and burn the iso to a dvd or image onto a usb drive. This is why having either another hard drive or another machine to do testing on to see what can go wrong.
     
    nforce4max, Aug 6, 2015
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