Upgrading unsupported laptop from Win 7 to Windows 10?

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I'd like to upgrade my Toshiba Satellite P770 to Win 10.  I plan to trying it out with a clean install on an extra hard drive.
Toshiba does not support Win 10 on this model. (Basically they don't know and don't bother asking!)

My two ideas are to either: 
1. Do a clean install of the original Toshiba Win 7, update it, and then do the Win 10 upgrade.
2. Just do a clean install of the Win 10.

Any idea which way would be more likely to work? Does the Win 10 upgrade carry over any drivers? Has anyone tried this on a P770?

Renee G · Accepted Answer

I would try #1 first, after catching up all the Win 7 drivers.  If that works, you can always clone the spare hard drive or import your data to it and then copy/clone it to a larger hard drive.

For greater boot up speed, you can try cloning the clean install to a solid state hard drive and then swapping the SSD into the laptop.

Stephen P · Answer

Thanks.
After the upgrade the trackpad & function keys didn't work. Sort of got the trackpad working by trying different old drivers. Newest Synaptics driver didn't work.

Upgrading unsupported laptop from Win 7 to Windows 10?

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