HP Pavilion dv6-6c35dx E Serial # 2CE20519SZ

[jjmcooley]

HP Pavilion dv6-6c35dx E Serial # 2CE20519SZ Product # A6Y53UA#ABA

I was thinking about changing the motherboard and processor and ram (If it could be done)? I would like to run windows 11 on this machine, if possible, I bought the laptop new only used it 6 times. Thank you

[Paul_Tikkanen]

There aren't any motherboards or processors you can install in your PC to have it support W11.

If you are happy with your PC, and if you are interested in installing W11 24H2 on your PC as is, watch this video, which is the easiest way to do it in my opinion, and I have tried many different ways to do this during the last 3 years.

How to Install Windows 11 on Unsupported PC in 2025 (New Easiest Method, No CMD)

Download the W24H2 ISO file and use that (3rd option).

Download Windows 11

You can download the free 7-Zip file utility from the link below. The top line is for 64 bit.

7-Zip

You'll have to repeat this procedure each October when Microsoft rolls out the new builds because a PC that does not meet Microsoft's minimum W11 hardware requirements will never automatically get the update to the next build.

Other than that, your PC will continue to get the monthly cumulative and other updates.

That's only a minor inconvenience to have continued OS support beyond October of 2025.

[jjmcooley]

Hi Paul, Thanks for getting back with me, So I downloaded windows 11 and followed the instructions, however I did get this error message. We couldn't install windows server, we set your PC back to the way it was before you started installing windows server.

0xC1900101-0x20017

The insulation failed in the Safe_OS phase with an error during BOOT operation 

Thank you

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

Unfortunately, I wouldn't know what you can do to get past that error.

I never came across a problem like that.

Your notebook may be one of those that can't be upgraded to W11.

Could be a BIOS issue or something related to that.

I have some 10 or so PC's running just fine on W11 24H2, but I don't have any notebooks as old as yours running W11 24H2.

I do have one notebook older than yours where the processor was not supported to run the new build of W11 24H2 and I had to leave it on W11 23H2.

If you google the error you are getting, there are some reports of recommended solutions to it on the Microsoft support forum for W10 and W11.

0xC1900101-0x20017 The insulation failed in the Safe_OS phase with an error during BOOT operation - ...

I don't know what your comfort level or desire is to try a clean install of W11. 

You would need to back up any files you want to save onto a portable hard drive.

That might work or it might fail and if it fails then you have to install W10 from scratch, unless you use a backup program to create a system image, and a bootable rescue drive you can use to restore the current configuration to.

The author of the video I posted has the way to clean install W11.

How to Clean install Windows 11 24H2 (Preview) on Unsupported PC's

You would still use the same 24H2 ISO file you saved. 

You can skip the video about how to get the Windows Insider Preview ISO file.

Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way

You will also change the partition scheme from GPT to MBR as he did in the video.