Windows 10 Wont Boot after fresh install on old laptop

[darkrisen2003]

Hello everyone. I have a really old laptop (Dell Inspiron 1520) that the hard drive died on. Before the hard drive died I was using windows 10 on the machine. I grabbed the free upgrade before it expired. I have replaced the hard drive and installed windows 10 via the usb media creation tool method. The install works just fine and then once complete it starts the countdown to reboot. I unplug the usb drive and let it reboot and start the first boot. You will see a few notifications along the bottom such as configuring hardware and the like. After a few moments it will reboot. This time when it has the windows loading screen you will get the windows logo with a spinning circle and after about 2 minutes no more hard drive activity. I have tried everything I can think of such as unplugging everything connected to the laptop, reinstalling windows time after time, resetting the bios to defaults, and nothing works. All of the guides I can find assume you can actually get into windows which I cannot. There seems to be a tons of guides suggesting disabling fast boot but that cannot be done if you cannot load windows. I have also tried booting to the recovery mode and choosing safe mode but it will not load safe mode for the first windows boot. I tried calling Microsoft support but for some reason they kept saying that dell support does not support windows 10 which confuses me since im calling Microsoft and not Dell lol. I used the laptop with windows 10 for over a year without issue so I know it should work but im out of ideas. I would appreciate any help.

 

[Malogeek]

It could simply be that the drivers that come built-in with windows 10 simply aren't compatible with the rather old laptop. You may have to install the original operating system then upgrade again.

 

[JackMDS]

First get yourself an SSD (Win 10 is very slow with slow HDs).

Then try again.

If it does the same try Malogeek, advice.

Install the same version of Win 7 that was on the computer, then Upgrade to Win 10 (I.e., not a clean install).

Win 10 would find the activation info on MS server and will activate Win 10.

Please be aware that currently the MS Activation takes longer time (my guess would be that they are busy with the New OCT17 Creators Update).

I have two computers that last week had to wait for Activation for two days.

 

[darkrisen2003]

My only problem with this is that I did a clean install on the laptop with windows 10 after getting the free upgrade last time before the hard drive died. Could it be possible that it is simply a setting in bios or some other hardware failure im overlooking?

 

[Ketchup]

Turn the wireless lan off and see if that makes a difference.