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‎04-16-2020 08:14 AM

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Product: Hp Mini 5102
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit)

Hi, just found my old Hp Mini 5102 laptop running on Windows 7 32-bit OS. I WOULD JUST LIKE TO ASK WHAT RECOMMENDED OS SHOULD I UPGRADE TO... because I’m planning on reformatting the laptop and upgrading it to a newer OS. Hoping someone sees this and knows the answer. Thank you! 

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‎04-16-2020 08:57 AM

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@AncientOne2000 

Sorry, but this is a really OLD PC with very limited specs.  Since MS has dropped support for Win7 and has only security support for Win8, the only OS upgrade option would be Win10 -- but with the specs, I seriously doubt it would work well, if at all.

 

It has a low res display, a slow processors, really old graphics chipset, and very limited memory of 2GB max.

 

I have a similar old Fujitsu laptop and I finally gave up struggling with it with Win10 a few months ago.  It works great under Win7 but with anything newer, it struggles.

 

Here is a thread about using really old equipment with Win10.  Maybe something in there will be useful to you:  https://www.tenforums.com/performance-maintenance/6909-lets-run-win10-really-really-old-hardware.htm...

 

Good Luck



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‎04-16-2020 08:57 AM

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@AncientOne2000 

Sorry, but this is a really OLD PC with very limited specs.  Since MS has dropped support for Win7 and has only security support for Win8, the only OS upgrade option would be Win10 -- but with the specs, I seriously doubt it would work well, if at all.

 

It has a low res display, a slow processors, really old graphics chipset, and very limited memory of 2GB max.

 

I have a similar old Fujitsu laptop and I finally gave up struggling with it with Win10 a few months ago.  It works great under Win7 but with anything newer, it struggles.

 

Here is a thread about using really old equipment with Win10.  Maybe something in there will be useful to you:  https://www.tenforums.com/performance-maintenance/6909-lets-run-win10-really-really-old-hardware.htm...

 

Good Luck



I am a volunteer and I do not work for, nor represent, HP
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‎04-16-2020 08:19 PM

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Thanks for your help!

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‎04-16-2020 08:32 PM

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I have a house dv6 7112 he  pro# b4t98... 

My hard drive burnt out so I got a Seagate momentus thin 500g  so the factory install if window  is over with it still says windows 7 with my firmware f.0A 

It won't let windows install says im Missing drivers so I been running of portable os. I also added a 4g ram they both throw up errors 000x3 and 000x7 or something like that but they work fine I belive,? I've downloaded drivers for it to usb but all I ever get is the blinking light. I'm runing zorin to be able to use my laptop and I want windows back when I go to the Microsoft website and download the thing that tells me that it's a OEM and I need to call in it's not registering I think it thinks it's different computer cuz I added that RAM and I don't have my original hard drive and then when I was putting the wrong hand RJ fell in my hand with the cable cord out tonight and we would have grabbed some rented off USB any help would be greatly appreciated long story short don't want to buy Windows if I don't have to or if it won't install

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