Dustyn
Thanks. I guess i’ll select “both” just in case my Win-7 32-bit thinkpad ever crashes.
And now for the hard part:
Re: needing Rufus to make the ISO bootable, didn’t the first part of that vid. imply that Rufus is optional (and also in the first part of the vid. he downloaded a bootable file via Win-Media? So if you already have a bootable file, why would you need to make the ISO bootable? Or maybe vice versa: If you went thru the trouble of using Rufus to make the ISO bootable, isn’t a non-ambulatory boot-file (via WinMedia) redundant?
I’m also hopelessly lost (no less than a child would be) with all the tech-talk starting where you said: “You don’t need to use ANY advanced options…”
To aurgathor:
See my first photo above. Do you see the HDD underneath where it states: MAKE: VARIOUS?
And that HDD had to have been functional, because when i first unboxed it a few weeks ago, Win-10 booted up.
What you enclosed in Red, happened in 2015. Since then, it may have been refurbed with other components.
My purchase was in 2020. But i agree its probably in bad shape or a bad design, because look at the thermal diagnostics. Granted i’m clueless, but they seem high according to the given chart.
With all that said, at this point, i think i’m giving up on this “invalid-partition” laptop as it’s turned into a headache for me. If i ever find time, I might bring the latter-Dell along with a more recent Win-10 Dell-E6230 to a repair shop where they upgrade to a trimmed-version of Win-11.
Bottom line:
For now I’d like to prioritize the topic of Win-10 ISO & bootable.
But i can’t understand such high-level tech talk.
Rather I can only follow step-by-step WikiHow-style instructions.