Windows 10 in my 7 year-old HP Compaq 6730s -should I try it out?

[gonzobilbao]

Hi,

I have an old (but working amazingly good!) 64bit processor HP Compaq 6730s, upgraded with a SSD drive and 8gb DDR2 ram memory. Currently it is dual-booting running windows 7 home premium, 64 bit edition, pretty smoothly -it has given no problems so far, and Ubuntu 14.04. I am pretty tempted to upgrade to windows 10, but given that it is a relatively old computer, I am not sure wether the hardware will be fully compatible with w10... and also I do not want to loose my partitions!

So what do you recommend me... shall I go for it?

Thank you very much for your help and for creating amazing computers like the 6730s!

Gonzalo

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

I have the elitebook 6930p which has basically the same hardware as your model.

W10 works just fine on mine, but I do not have a webcam, nor do I use the fingerprint reader or protect tools security software, so I cannot confirm that those work on W10.

You should be able to recover to W7 very easily if you do not delete the windows.old folder.

To revert, go to settings>update and secuity>

http://www.askvg.com/how-to-restore-previous-windows-version-after-upgrading-to-windows-10/

[gonzobilbao]

This one has a webcam but no fingerprint detection... looks like it should work! THank you!

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

Please post back and let us know if W10 works on your model too.

[MohdArhum28]

Well, I have the same laptop as you (even less ram than yours,btw-2GB) And its running pretty smoothly! even better than win7! so, i think you should UPGRADE, not clean install , because if you are not satisfied, you can roll back easily!

so, you should try it.