HP DV7t-3100 CTO CPU upgrade question

[Estam]

Thanks Paul, Could you please elaborate more on the first two sentences.

I have all my data backed up and the media creation tool.

I am assuming the (home vs pro) that the home version is a lighter than the pro version?

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You have to install the same version of W10 that you have now.

You probably have W10 Home installed so that is what you need to select, but Home 64 bit.

[Estam]

Thanks Paul,  Just finished installing the i5 M580 cpu and added 8 gig ram and all worked well.

Ended up purchasing a new hard drive, instead of loosing everything on the old, and installed Win 10 Pro 20H2 x64bit and all worked well.

My Question is I installed the original hard drive to the second slot, is there anything I need to do before I boot up?

Both hard drives have partitions where the Win 10 are occupying the first partition in each  and with this am wondering if I need to install software to enable to select which I want to boot from or does windows do this automatically? 

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

I'm not sure how the dual drive configuration works in that model series.

Normally, only one of the two drives can have an OS on it, so you would probably want to format the old drive and just use it for storage.

You'll just have to try it out and see what drive the notebook boots from.

It will be one or the other automatically.

[Estam]

Thanks,

I'm such an XP nerd, do everything from the boot.ini file.

I'll give it a whirl and see what happens.

Maybe some others have done this...