Problem dualbooting pc

[Fifolo]

I have a old computer (originally bought in 2006). I recently upgraded it slightly and downloaded windows 10, only to find out that my gpu is no longer supported. 

 Since I still want windows 10, but still want to do some very mild gaming (age of empires 2, blackhawk striker 2, fate) I want to dualboot my pc. I partitioned my drive, did a bootable usb. When I try to boot from the usb, windows 10 boots up. I set the usb as priority boot, same thing. I switched usb's, same thing. I looked on the web for answers, no luck. I know for a fact that the usb works, I tried it on a different computer and it was ready to install windows. I also tried booting from my dvd drive (it was empty, just wanted to see what happens) and it also boots to win10. I turn to you, ltt forums, for help. Any help is much appreciated 

Wojciech

[A_Wild_Abra]

Ok, couple of things. You can't just unpack a Windows Vista Iso onto a USB and run it. Youll need a special program to properly make that USB bootable.

 

Aside from that, does the Mobo even recognize the USB? Is there a status screen that shows what it can and cannot see? A lot of boards from 2006 don't come with USB boot support.

[Fifolo]

21 minutes ago, A_Wild_Abra said:

Ok, couple of things. You can't just unpack a Windows Vista Iso onto a USB and run it. Youll need a special program to properly make that USB bootable.

 

Aside from that, does the Mobo even recognize the USB? Is there a status screen that shows what it can and cannot see? A lot of boards from 2006 don't come with USB boot support.

What program?

 

Yes the mothermoard does recognise the motherboard, I can try to boot from the usb, but it just starts win10. I installed windows 10 from a usb (used the windows program to make, a installation usb) so the motherboard does support usb boot.

[A_Wild_Abra]

1 minute ago, Fifolo said:

What program?

 

Yes the mothermoard does recognise the motherboard, I can try to boot from the usb, but it just starts win10. I installed windows 10 from a usb (used the windows program to make, a installation usb) so the motherboard does support usb boot.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/windows-usb-dvd-download-tool

 

 

[Fifolo]

3 minutes ago, A_Wild_Abra said:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/windows-usb-dvd-download-tool

 

 

I did it. Still doesn't work. Same problem

 

[A_Wild_Abra]

Hmm, maybe its time to see if you can try a DVD/CD and see if that works.