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I do a full shutdown and cold boot at the end.

I use the disk cleanup utility reached via navigating to C drive/ Properties, and check all the boxes for cleanup.

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I update and optimize my W7Pro64 build to the most recent drivers and settings first. For example, corrupted USB drivers fixes, and deleting USB root hubs via Device Manager when needed to allow auto-reinstall to recover USB pathways.Ģ.

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I do the same with my install work on W7 workstations, and have found I can do some repair work with the PS2 devices I cannot do with USB mouse/keyboard. You can find these for a very reasonable cost via eBay, even new. PS2 is more primative than using USB devices for these interfaces, and it gives me control when USB may not yet be properly installed and functioning under W10. I like to do these type of projects using a HP laser PS2 mouse and a HP PS2 keyboard.

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have done the upgrade from Windows 7 Pro 64-bit HP OEM COA installs to W10 Pro 64-bit over the years successfully this way:ġ. W10 is faster and a more sophisticated OS, as you would expect, but W7Pro64 still is my favorite. Personally I'm liking W10Pro64 more and more, and we use W7Pro64 in our work environment still so day in and day out I get to see and feel the differences. If you happen to get a version with old firmware the Intel Toolbox software can upgrade it to the latest for you. The 300GB size is reasonable in price, and the 600GB is not much more, so you can see the difference when you are choosing your boot drive in BIOS. Then from BIOS you can choose your boot drive and easily switch between the two.

You can load W7 on one and W10 on the other. These are SATA gen II drives, and these let you use the excellent free Intel Toolbox software for SSD management. My recommendation is that you buy two used Intel 320 series SSDs from eBay. The Z400 Z600 Z800 are all SATA generation II technology (very fast, and for practical purposes virtually as fast as SATA generation III technology). Regardless of whether you use W7Pro64 or W10Pro64 you should run it off a SSD. I'm guessing the process would work equally well on the earlier v1 version of these workstations. it will have 6 instead of 4 memory slots. I've even gotten this process to work perfectly with xw6400/xw6600 and xw4600 workstations, plus others from that era. With a company like HP you can be quite certain that the process will get you excellent functional W10 drivers. I just want the computer to be 'W10-activated' for the future before the gift goes away (still works 3/18). Usually I just reload my W7Pro64 build at this point, however, because we have not transitioned to W10 fully. Once the W10 upgrade has been done the UUID of that computer is registered forever with MS, and you thereafter can do a clean W10 build from scratch, with all the fine tuning you wish. exe, choose to allow the install to do any updates it deems fit, and let the process run this way using defaults. Then I run the W10 upgrader by launching that. I don't choose to save any of the old programs or data because I've already captured an image of that tuned build with Acronis. I have already done a full tuneup of the W7Pro64 install before this. My method is to download the latest W10Pro64 installer onto a thumb drive, directly from MS, and instead of booting from that thumb drive I simply boot into W7 and then navigate to the thumb drive and in that to the W10 setup.exe on the thumb drive. This will work whether your W7Pro64 install is one from a MS 'system builder's' DVD or the official HP Restore/original HP W7Pro64 install. This is not well documented, but it is a gift from Microsoft that continues to work. Assuming you have a properly licensed W7Pro64 install you can upgrade, still, from that to W10Pro64.

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We have multiple Z400 and Z600 workstations now running very well on Windows 10 Pro 64-bit. Let me know if you have other questions or require additional information. Usually the best result can be achieved by combining methods below. There are several methods on how to obtain chipset and other drivers. Update all drivers after the W10 installation, mainly chipset drivers. Update BIOS and firmware, which you will find under Windows 7 OS. If you have less then 4 GB RAM install W10 32-bit version. However it should work just fine, even better than on W7.

After communicating with one of the experts about your post, I have some additional input:Īs stated above, HP Z400 Workstation is not supported by HP on Windows 10. Hello you for visiting the HP Forum and thanks to for the very helpful information provided.

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