My HP Pavilion 9700 need a upgrade to windows 10 or later. Current OS is VISTA.

[Joaroyen]

I need to uppgrade OS from Vista to Win 11. I have a Pavilion 9700 Entertainment PC

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

The notebook was never supported by HP for W7>W10.

If you want to install W10 on your notebook, you will buy a W10 license and product key and a genuine product key would cost well more than your notebook is worth, and things may not work right since the only drivers available are for Windows Vista.

I advise against doing it.

Your notebook cannot run W11 24H2 because the processor does not support POPCNT

If you want to install Windows 11 24H2, your computer should meet the basic system requirements:

• Processor: 1GHz (64-bit with POPCNT) or faster CPU or System on a Chip (SoC) with two or more cores.
• RAM: 4GB.
• Hard drive: 64GB or larger.
• System firmware: UEFI and Secure Boot capable.
• TPM: Trusted Platform Module version 2.0.
• Graphics: Compatible with DirectX 12 or later with WDDM 2.0 driver.
• Display resolution: HD 720p display greater than 9 inches diagonally (8 bits per color channel).
• Networking: Internet and Microsoft account.