So, having some extra time at home recently, I’ve been cleaning up a bit. I have several old computers that have been sitting around unused. They are all Lenovo business machines I3s running Windows 7 pro. I thought just for fun that I would see if they can be updated to Windows 10. It would not be bad to have extra up-to-date computers around.
I tried an old Lenovo think center desktop. It may have started life as windows XP and been upgraded to windows 7, I can’t remember for sure, it’s probably 10 years old, but runs fine since it has added RAM and a newer SSD. I tried three times to install windows 10, along the way updating drivers, doing a repair installation of Windows 7 etc. but it would not update. It always failed at first boot.
I am updating a Lenovo ThinkPad laptop now. It’s probably seven years old but appears to be updating without problems.
I am just curious, since I know there are many on here who have upgraded a large number of computers, is there any way to know in advance if a computer will be upgradable? Any specific features in the configuration which would make it a nonstarter for Win 10?
