Win10 install on Win8.1 laptop broken hard drive

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I was given an old HP Win8.1 laptop with a broken 1TB hard drive. I have an idea to repurpose this one as an sdr computer and run it headless when the ISS is transmitting the SSTV. I think it originally had 8gb ram but that was purloined to upgrade another laptop so I searched through the spares boxes and found 2x2gb sticks that would fit. Amazon provided a Crucial brand 250gb ssd for 30 quid delivered so I started the upgrade.


Verdict

Absolutely no problems whatsoever - win10 installed smoothly and automatically activated using the baked in Win8.1 key.


Total cost

Laptop - nil - donated as not working (faulty hdd)
replacement ssd - £30 delivered
replacement ram - nil - came out of the spares boxes
 

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Old 8.1 laptop ?
 

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Almost new compared to most of the kit I normally play with.... :-rofl2

However its a few years old - I believe it originally had Win8.0 originally but it was upgraded to 8.1 at some point. It certainly activated to Win10 no problem, so cant have been 8.0 as its last OS. I put Linux Mint onto it a while back to play with it on a desperately slow old hdd out of another scrapped laptop that was donkeys years old.
 
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