UPGRADE HARD DRIVE AND MEMORY

[psbloom]

This is a second hard laptop I purchased a few years ago, love the size and feel and it works well but only has 4gb memory and 500gb hard drive, I want to upgrade to at 16gb memory and 1 or 2tb hard drive, is this possible and if so, what are the recommended hardware's for compatibility with this machine?

Thanks

psbloom

[psbloom]

Also, I tried to upgrade OS to windows 11, but get message that says system does not meet hardware requirements.

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

Your notebook only has support for 1 x 8 GB of DDR3L-1600 memory, since it has an Intel Pentium processor.

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You can replace the 500 GB 2.5" mechanical hard drive with a 1 TB or 2 TB 2.5" SATA SSD.

Your notebook's processor is not on Microsoft's list of Intel processors supported for W11.

Windows processor requirements Windows 11 supported Intel processors | Microsoft Learn

If you are interested in installing W11 on your PC as is, you can read this discussion for how I upgraded several HP and Dell notebook and desktop PC's that did not meet the W11 hardware requirements to W11 22H2.

You have to use the version of the Rufus utility that I zipped up and attached in the discussion (v3.18).

Re: Issues upgrading to windows 11 - HP Support Community - 8517912

If the in-place upgrade fails, you should be able to clean install W11 using the bootable W11 installation flash drive you made with Rufus.

[psbloom]

Thanks for the reply, I am ok not upgrading to windows 11 at this time but think I will try to upgrade ram and hard drive based on descriptions you gave, hopefully I'll get a little better performance speed and be able in increasing my storage space. I hate getting rid of computer because I need/want faster or more storage.

Thanks again for you input...

PS

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.