There are things called uefi boot. so I have one, here are some things to do, 1, if you're buying a Uefi chip/usb make sure you have an m Sata, you possibly can get one with windows 11 or 10x, you have to take good care of it, since they are pretty cheap on amazon, you only really have to just search up .m Sata to usb converter chip/usb. if you don't want to do this, get a separate OS with creating partitions, for windows 11 you might not have good requirements so you can possibly pick win10 home and server editions which are pretty much still supported by now. so, in case if you have a laptop that's Lenovo, you can also get someone to help you to solder a new processor in although not recommended. if all that doesn't help you have to unscrew it yourself *INDEED NOT RECOMMENDED* I'd not do it if you don't know what certain parts do. if you're still in school and have an IT department *sometimes what I do with school and non-school devices* is to bring it to them to know what parts are outdated, what's not, and in general. it's not an actual recommendation especially some schools are strict with that stuff. but also, I have to mention about the usb option, there are some that when you buy it it'll be a uefi option *I have a dell OptiPlex 7010* so my instructions were: press f12, for Lenovo it could be any depending on your model, F1, F2, enter, all that good stuff. even fn+f12, google says: For some Lenovo laptops like IdeaPad or Edge series, the Novo button can also be used to access the boot menu. if that's not it. there's a red button somewhere on the keyboard of the laptop, the red rubber knob, although its mostly used for a stupid mouse control. so my steps were to press f12/spam f12 or whatever key yours is, that will open a boot menu where for my converter chip, it was called ASMT_21150 or something like that , that one was mine, so for pretty much every device, the boot menu is coded to have an input of up and down arrow keys, and enter to select your boot option, it should work, although I tried on one hp device with a windows 11 uefi chip, and didn't work or boot up. in conclusion, your laptop might be a little too old. but there are some solutions to that. if it has more problems, I'll give you more options sometime later.
