HP Pavilion 15-e019tx upgrade os windows 8.1 to 10

[PratikT5130]

hi my laptop is HP Pavilion 15-e019tx i want to upgrade os windows 8.1 to 10 but hp Drivers are not available on hp site what can i do? is it possible to upgrade?

[WAWood]

@PratikT5130

The good news is that Win8.1 drivers often work well in Win10; the bad news is that there is no guarantee of that -- and if they don't work well, then you're stuck with a laptop with limited functionality because HP is no longer writing Win10 drivers for the older PCs.

So, BEFORE you attempt the upgrade, you should do two things.

1) Check for compatibility.

Run this Win10 appraisal tool from MS:  http://www.thewindowsclub.com/manually-run-windows-10-compatibility-appraiser

2) Create an image backup of your PC using a free third-party tool so that, if the upgrade goes badly, you have something to restore your PC from:

I personally prefer to use third-party Recovery solutions as they tend to be both more flexible and more reliable than any built-in solutions.

Macrium Reflect (MR) provides a FREE version that can be used to image and restore partitions or entire drives: http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx

What I recommend is the following:
1) Download and install Macrium Reflect (MR)
2) Run MR 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 stick
3) Use the option to create a boot USB stick or CD

My experience is that MR, when using the High Compression option, typically can compress the saved image file to about 50% of the USED space in the OS partition. This means if you have an 80GB OS partition, and 40GB is used, MR only needs about 20GB to store the image file.

I use this all the time and it typically takes less than 15 minutes to do the image backup and about the same time or less to do a restore.

Plus, MR has the option to Add a Recovery Boot Menu entry. This allows you then to boot into WinRE, and you can then use that to do a restore -- when you can't boot into Windows!

NOW, you have the means to restore a full working system from the external drive or USB stick in only a few minutes.

Good Luck