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Stephen P
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Stephen P asked in Computers & InternetHardwareLaptops & Notebooks · 5 years ago

Upgrading unsupported laptop from Win 7 to Windows 10?

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?

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  • Renee G
    Lv 6
    5 years ago
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    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
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    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.

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