installing a newer operating system of a old HP Pavilion DV9000

[schleeb]

What is needed to update the OS in this old Pavilion laptop.  I have one that is in mint condition and would like to revive it to be a little more practical.  It was running Vista and would like to be able to run Win 10 if possible.  I have removed the original HDD and installed a much larger SSD 1 Tb drive.  Tried installing Win 7 and Win 10 with no luck with either.  Says it needs drivers but its not specific as to WHICH drivers... though it says I need one for the optical drive.  (I'd guess its probably due for a BIOS update as well).

[schleeb]

A few more specifics....

It has an Intel Centrino Duo processor, 2Gb of RAM, Intel graphics and originally had the Microsoft Vista OS.

[Venom21]

Which screen says it need drivers for that? Post image. You ram is too low. I suggest you to upgrade it and it can run windows 10 properly after some optimization like debloat, etc.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

@schleeb 

What is the full model number or product number of your dv9000?

Exactly what model Intel processor does it have?

The dv9000 - dv9400's may not support a SSD because the drive controller is only SATA I, and most SATA SSDs are only backward compatible to SATA II.

The dv9500s and up should be able to support a SSD because the drive controller is SATA II

What media are you using to install W7 or W10?  A USB flash drive or DVD?

How did you make the media, or is it Microsoft factory media?

The PC can run W10, but I have never heard of anyone that had a problem with needing drivers when first trying to install Windows.