Vista upgrade - how?

[Norfolkboyuk]

Having cleaned out a cupboard I found my old notebook, it still works well so I was wondering how do I preserve all the drivers etc and upgrade to W10.

appreciate the ins and outs of how to do it.

Many thanks

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

Your notebook was not eligible for the free upgrade to Windows 10.

Only notebooks that came with Windows 7, 8 or 8.1 were eligible for the upgrade.

That means you would need to pay for a license to use W10 and in the USA, the Home edition costs $139.00.

HP only released drivers for Windows Vista for the dv9000 model series, and in order to install W10, you would have to clean install it, and lose everything currently on the hard drive.

To make matters worse, HP retired support for the dv9000 model series around 3 years ago, making it very hard to even find the Vista drivers you need, and hope that they also work on W10.

Due to the cost of the operating system, I believe you would be throwing good money after bad by installing W10 on your notebook unless you can find a place where you can get it for free, and there is no place that I know of where it can be done legally.

You can probably continue to use your notebook as is, if you don't care about the security risks.

The Firefox browser should work on Windows Vista, and provide better performance than the outdated version of Internet Explorer.

This was the last version of Firefox that worked on Windows Vista...

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/52.9.0esr/win32/en-GB/Firefox%20Setup%2052.9.0esr.exe

[Norfolkboyuk]

thanks Paul, now scrapped.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.