Being a PC user with only a basic working knowledge, if that, I need help with where to go next
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My most pressing issue is with my daily driver hack PC, which is, a 2007 HP Pavillion Slimline, model S3110UK. Basic spec is Pentium dual core 2140 1.6Ghz, 1 gig ram, DDR2 SDRAM, OS is Win Vista Home Premium.
This PC has done and still does everything I need a PC to do, BUT, it has a major issue, inflicted by my impatience some years ago. One day, these many years ago, during a normal switch on to begin the days tasks, the thing was just taking forever to boot up. The HD light was just solid, unblinking for minutes and minutes, without going to the login screen. After about 10, maybe 15 minutes I just triggered and turned it off, then on again. BIG mistake! Then a load of error messages just spewed onto the screen and I was in trouble. So I tried system recovery from the boot screen and eventually, after maybe 3 hours, I got the thing to the login screen and windows loaded. But, there were so many error messages, it was like a blizzard! I just cancelled them all and carried on. Ever since there are lots of things not working, the major one being email, it can't open windows mail. It also slows down massively during the day so I have to shut down and restart.
I haven't been able to update windows since then either. Nothing happens when I try.
So, the question is, will it run Win 10, if so, how do I install that to transfer all files, even, hopefully, to recover my emails pre disaster? People have said to me, just take an image of the vista system and transfer to the ne OS? What does that even mean?!
Or, is it worth going through this on such an old PC, would it be better to go to a new model?
HELP??!!