Can I upgrade my HP Pavilion p6674y to windows 10?

[QuarkHunter]

I need to upgrade my OS to at least Windows 10 and am having trouble finding this info at the HP Support website. My system is:

Model p6674y  having product number BT611AA

Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 820 Processor   2.80 GHz

12 GB RAM

64-bit Operating System

Can anyone in the community give me a hand here please?

Thanks!

Quarkhunter

[WAWood]

@QuarkHunter 

This model came with Windows 7 and I have been unable to locate any HP Win10 drivers for it -- so forcing an upgrade to Win10 is risky.

As to Win11, it will NOT run on that as the processor is not supported.  So, Win10 is the last OS that will work on it.

But ... if you want to try it, then follow the instructions below:

- Use Macrium Reflect to create a backup on a large USB stick or external drive (see below)

- Use this link to download and create Win10 install media: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

- insert that into your PC (do NOT boot from it), find the folder containing the media, select the setup.exe file, right-click that and select Run as Administrator.  This will start an in-place Upgrade which could then take a couple of hours to complete.

If you are presented with a window asking for a product key, down near the bottom is a entry you can click to skip that. Do NOT enter a product key, as it will reuse your existing key and when you finish and get back online, Windows will automatically activate.

--------------- Doing Image Backup ---------------
I personally prefer to use third-party Backup 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.

What I recommend is the following:
1) Download and install Macrium Reflect (MR) from here: http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx
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.

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