LF hints: Updating Samsung Raiisa R700 from Windows 7 to 10

Hi there,

I want to update one of my old Samsung Laptops (Samsung R700 Aura T5750 Raiisa (NPR700-AS05DE/SEG)) from it's native Windows 7 to 10. I looked around a little bit if it's possible at all - Samsungs FAQ, like always, no big help concerning this - and found some posts/infos (that seemed to be revoked), that Samsung advises strongly against doing so. Main reason: driver issues.

So: Has anybody maybe tried this before me yet? Or has any advice what to look after / not to do, because otherwise problem X will come up?

P.S.: Please stop telling me "Buy a new device!". I got several, I'm just interested in tuning up the old stuff and how much it will improve it's performance and if it'll perform better with 10 or 7. Otherwise I'll just store it into my vintage corner in the attic...

Why not just back it up and then try it?

You can still use this tutorial to activate a clean install of Windows 10 if you save the Windows 7 activation first:
Clean Install Windows 10 Directly without having to Upgrade First Installation Upgrade Tutorials

If it turns out 10 is unusable due to missing drivers then you can restore. I have different but (some of them older) PCs and they work OK. I think you'll be OK. Probably.

Clean install of 10 will be better than upgrade as upgrade gets stuck when the process doesn't like your Video Driver/USB etc.

Assuming you made a backup you can re-install your programs on 10, recreate your users and then just copy your data back.

Worth a try :)

lx07 said:

Why not just back it up and then try it?

'Cause if someone comes up with the "Been there, waste of time!" answer, I'd save me the trouble.

I try to do that if I won't get that and then come up with my story. And tyvm for the link!

P.S.: I wanted to do a clean install, since I doubt, like you said, that it'll run well. But if Windows 10 won't find any supported drivers...

Perhaps someone else will know better - I don't have a Samsung unfortunately.

If you try it I think you'll have more luck with clean install than upgrade for sure. The process simply doesn't check as much.

Windows update (after clean install) will give you drivers for most things and then (in my experience) you'll spend hours looking for a trackpad driver. Or for your 3G modem. It is the small things that take the time.

K, if it's just that: both are, after all those years, still in mint condition. So...

Well, my feedback so far:

Short: It worked w/o any problems.

Long: It worked w/o any problems. I used a very old (10.0.10240.16384) Win10 image (to be sure) and even that recognized everything correctly. Even the trackpad. And the modem. It even did install the fall update correctly - something that one of my other devices still didn't achieve (Other post - maybe. Still working on it.) Performance is way better than w/ Win 7. Since it went through w/o any trouble, I can't write anything more.

The only "problem" I encountered: due to the old hardware the fall update took hours till completion. Maybe next time I'd use the latest image.

That's good news - there are lots of us using old hardware here.

Now to run disk cleanup - that will also take hours and use all your CPU - but it is worth it (and worth scheduling for when you're not doing anything else...).

Already done. Maybe I wipe after that the whole thingy and start over again w/ an actual image. Atm I got a Win7/10 multi boot.

Well, what's kinda annoying, but just a minor issue, that it doesn't automatically connect to my WLAN - and does take really long to do so (~40s) or just via troubleshooting.