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03-04-2023 08:17 AM
Hi, Can HP Pavilion 15-e078sa Notebook be updated to window 10?
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03-04-2023 08:29 AM
Hi:
I looked at the specs for your notebook and don't see any reason why it shouldn't be able to run W10.
Here's how you can upgrade your PC to W10.
Make the bootable USB installation media with the media creation tool from the link below.
Download Windows 10 (microsoft.com)
It will be easier to do if you have another PC running W10 or W11 to make the media because the media creation tool no longer works on W7/W8.1 unless you make some registry changes.
See the info at the link below if you run into problems.
(Solved) Media Creation Tool Error 0X80072F8F - 0X20000 (appuals.com)
After you create the bootable USB installation flash drive, have your notebook running and at the Windows desktop.
Plug the flash drive in the USB port.
Open the flash drive in Windows explorer.
You will see a list of files on the flash drive.
Double-click on the Setup application you see in the list of files to begin the upgrade process to W10.
After you upgrade to W10, if you find that things don't work right, you have 10 days to go back to W8.1 as long as you don't delete any of the upgrade files or the Windows.old folder.
03-04-2023 08:29 AM
Hi:
I looked at the specs for your notebook and don't see any reason why it shouldn't be able to run W10.
Here's how you can upgrade your PC to W10.
Make the bootable USB installation media with the media creation tool from the link below.
Download Windows 10 (microsoft.com)
It will be easier to do if you have another PC running W10 or W11 to make the media because the media creation tool no longer works on W7/W8.1 unless you make some registry changes.
See the info at the link below if you run into problems.
(Solved) Media Creation Tool Error 0X80072F8F - 0X20000 (appuals.com)
After you create the bootable USB installation flash drive, have your notebook running and at the Windows desktop.
Plug the flash drive in the USB port.
Open the flash drive in Windows explorer.
You will see a list of files on the flash drive.
Double-click on the Setup application you see in the list of files to begin the upgrade process to W10.
After you upgrade to W10, if you find that things don't work right, you have 10 days to go back to W8.1 as long as you don't delete any of the upgrade files or the Windows.old folder.
03-04-2023 09:48 AM
You're very welcome.
Unfortunately, I don't know what to do when you get an error.
I've never had a problem upgrading any of my older PC's to W10.
See if the steps provided in the link below are of help.
How to Fix the Update Error 0xC1900101 – 0x30017 in Windows 10 & 11 (makeuseof.com)
03-05-2023 06:06 AM - edited 03-05-2023 06:07 AM
You're very welcome.
It may be possible, but you will need to use one of the W11 hardware check bypass methods to install W11 since your notebook's hardware does not meet all of W11's hardware requirements (unsupported processor, no TPM 2.0 security device).
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 are going to basically do the same thing you did to upgrade to W10, but you have to use the version of Rufus I attached in the discussion below because the new version removed the W11 hardware check bypass hacks.
Re: Issues upgrading to windows 11 - HP Support Community - 8517912