Operating System Installations and upgrades

Whether you are looking to update your machine to the latest operating system, or whether you have experienced corruption or hardware failure, Haslam IT can help. We can upgrade you to the latest supported operating system for your device or we can install a fresh copy of the operating system in the event that your system has become corrupted or you have had to have the hard drive replaced.

We can Install or upgrade:

Windows systems (Win 10 or 11)
Mac OS (all versions)
Ipad / iPhone IOS
Ubuntu
Chrome OS
Raspberry Pi
Gaming systems such as Sony PlayStation

Requirements for Windows 11

Windows 11 can only be installed on relatively modern hardware.

The Official Requirements are:

Processor: 1 GHz or faster with 2 or more cores on a compatible 64-bit system
RAM: 4 GB or more (we would recommend at least 8 GB)
Storage: 64 GB or more available space
UEFI firmware, secure Boot capable
Trusted Platform Module (TPM) V2.0
Graphics Card: Direct X 12 or above with WDDM 2.0 driver
Internet connectivity is required

It is possible to by-pass some of the above requirements, but we would NOT recommend this.

Windows 10

The official Requirements for Windows 10 are:

Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster processor or SoC.
(Processor needs to support PAE (Physical Address Extension),
NX (Non-Execution Bit) and SSE2 (Streaming SIMD Extensions 2).
RAM: 2 GB Minimum (We would recommend at least 8 GB for 64-bit systems and 4 GB for 32-Bit systems)
Storage: 16 GB for 32-bit OS 20 GB for 64-bit OS
Graphics Card: DirectX 9 or later with WDDM 1.0 driver

In practice, Windows 10 can be installed on most hardware purchased within the last ten years.

It is generally possible to upgrade from Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 to Windows 10, but for best results we would recommend a "clean" installation is carried out.

When upgrading bear in mind these points:

When upgrading, you should keep all of your existing programs
(though some programs may need updating or replacing).
With a "Clean" install ALL programs would need to be re-installed
(data such as MS Office documents and photos etc can be backed-up & restored)
It is only possible to the same architecture
(i.e. 32-Bit to 32-Bit & 64-Bit to 64-Bit)
You can Only upgrade to the same family of software
(e.g From Win 7 Home to Win 10 Home or Win 7 Pro to Win 10 Pro)
Official support for Windows 10 is due to end in October 2025.

Older Operating systems

It is no longer possible to install Windows operating systems older than Window 10 - Microsoft has turned off the activation servers for these products.

Below are the official dates when support ended for older Microsoft operating systems:

Operating System	Release Date	End of Support
Windows 2000	17th Feb 2000	13th Jul 2010
Windows XP	25th Oct 2001	8th Apr 2014
Windows Vista SP1	30th Jan 2007	12th Jul 2011
Windows Vista SP2	26th May 2009	11th Apr 2017
Windows 7	22nd Oct 2009	14th Jan 2020
Windows 8.1	17th Oct 2013	10th Jan 2023
Free Upgrade to Windows 10	Jul 2015	29th Jul 2016
Windows 10	29th Jul 2015	14th Oct 2025
Windows 11	5th Oct 2021	11th Nov 2025

Legend

= Currently Supported

= No Longer Supported

Mac Operating Systems

We can upgrade or re-install most Mac operating systems. We can configure Intel-based Mac systems to dual boot into both Mac OS and Windows using Boot Camp.

If you are not sure of the latest version of MAC OS that your system supports, just send us the serial number and we can check for you.

Here is a list of MAC OS systems with release dates that we can generally install:

Mac OS Version	Release Date	Most Recent Version
10.11 El Capitan	30/09/15	10.11.6 09/07/18
10.12 Sierra	30/09/16	10.12.6 26/09/19
10.13 High Sierra	25/09/17	10.13.6 12/11/20
10.14 Mojave	24/09/18	10.14.6 21/07/21
10.15 Catalina	07/10/19	10.15.7 20/07/22
11.0 Big Sur	12/11/20	11.7.10 11/09/23
12.0 Monterey	25/10/21	12.7.6 29/07/24
13.0 Ventura	24/10/22	13.6.9 07/08/24
14.0 Sonoma	26/09/23	14.6.1 07/08/24

Legend

= Currently Supported

= No Longer Supported