Windows 10 on older Pavilion

I have a 6 years pavilion dv6 model xg880ua #abc (amd phenom 2 840 triple-heart) running windows 7. Anyone with this model has updated to windows 10. What was or is the experience. If I do, I'll do a clean install. Should I worry about?

Hillelmenachim

Hello;

Let me welcome you on the HP forums!

I read your post about the upgrade of your Pavilion DV6 laptop to Win10 and wanted to help.

I "upgraded" my laptop Pavilion DV6 (different model) in Win10 - but he had a lot of work, and I learned from it would have been much easier, I know the problems in advance had.  So, I set up this description to help others with a similar PC:

-first of all, some generic comments-

You think about the amount of work that you want to post just to run Win10.  Seriously.  Old machine Win7 tend to come in two flavors when it comes to upgrading Win10 - really easy and really difficult.

The really hard to upgrade computers fall into two categories: (1) those who are expandable to Win10 and works OK, (2) those who are not.

Computers laptops HP, especially old Win7 machines, often came with two different graphics - and Intel chips and then either a processor AMD or Nvidia.  This was known as switchable graphics card or hybrid.  You have run using the Intel chip most of the time, but when you need additional graphics power, as in the game, the PC automatically switched over to the use of the AMD or Nvidia graphics chip.

Problem is, this requires special graphics drivers to work, and while that those that are preinstalled on laptops Win7, these drivers simply do not exist for Win10.  These drivers are not available from Intel, AMD or Nvidia.  One way to tell if your PC has two different graphics chips is to look in under Graphics Device Manager.

WARNING IMPORTANT: If there are two different cards listed, an Intel and AMD/Nividia, then you have this problem - and if you force an upgrade to Win10, you will have serious graphic problems and your machine will not work.

However, if you do not have this problem, to CAN pass to Win10, but you must be willing to do four things:

(1) do a full image backup of disk external drive or USB stick, capacity
(2) changes to the reserved system partitioning hard disk recommandΘes mΘthodes,
(3) use a different approach to Windows Update to do the upgrade,
(4) be ready to do a clean install, if the upgrade does not work.

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1: backup of images:
This is VITAL, because the machine is doomed to failure of the upgrade, and when that happens, you will learn that GoBack to Win10 function is NOT reliable, and that can leave you with a corrupt machine that will require the factory reset and lose all that on it, to get it working again.

You can avoid this by making an image backup to an external hard drive or a USB drive using Macrium reflect (MR), which provides a FREE version that can be used to image and restore partitions or drives together.

What I recommend is the following:
(1) download and install Macrium reflect (MR)
(2) run M. and choose the option: "Create an image of the partition (s) required to backup and restore Windows" to write a full backup to an external drive or USB key
(3) use the option to create a CD or a USB startup key

NOW, you have the means to restore a full system that works for the external hard drive or USB key in a few minutes.
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2: System reserved for resizing:
There is a small partition on the HDD with Win7 preinstalled machines known as system reserved.  It is something known as the boot loader code.  There is 100 MB format: all that is necessary for Win7.  But Win10 needs 350 MB and, in some cases, is NOT able to resize it on its own.  IF this happens, you must manually use a partitioning tool to resize it yourself.
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3: use a different approach to upgrade:
Windows Update is the simpler, but less reliable, way to do the upgrade from Win10.  A much better and more reliable way is to use Microsoft Media creation tool: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/media-creation-tool-install?ocid=ms_wol_win10

In my case, I created the installation media Win10 on USB inserted that and tried to do the upgrade while remaining in Win7.  Who - failed miserably!

So, I ended up having to restore my PC to Win7 (using MR backup, I had made before the upgrade) and follow the details in step 4 - and it worked!
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4: be prepared to clean-install:
If you do all this, and after the upgrade, your PC works partially, this means that the upgrade is not well and stuff is still there the previous OS corrupt the functionality of Win10.

You MIGHT be able to solve the problem in fact a clean install of Win10. Problem is that, often, a clean-install does not recognize prior activation, even if it should.

So, before doing the upgrade, follow these instructions on the community forums Win10 on creating a genuineticket.xml file: http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/23354-clean-install-windows-10-directly-without-having-upgrade-first.html

You need more later to activate your pc Win10 after the installation of clean.

NOTE: I did the clean install, and even if the product key was SUPPOSED to work to activate Win10, he did not.  And calls to MS are loss of time - since the MS idiots said I couldn't activate Win10 with a Win7 product key!

What DID work was using approach documented in the tenforums thread genuineticket.  I copied that from the USB when I recorded it, restarted, and after that, my DV6 has been activated - and it working great since!

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