reinstall windows load driver usb boot

[PieterFP]

In reinstalling Windows from USB stick the HP asks for a driver to format the C:/ harddisk  

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

I'm somewhat surprised that is happening to you.

The only suggestion I can offer would be to unzip the storage controller drivers from your PC's support page that I zipped up and attached below and see if any of those get Windows to find the drive.

Unzip the file to its folder.  Copy the folder to a USB flash drive and plug that into an available USB port.

When you are at the screen where Windows can't find any drives to install on, click on the Load driver option and browse to the USB flash drive with the storage controller drivers on it.

If you check the box, it will only include the compatible driver.

Click Next, and hopefully W10 will find the drive and continue on with the installation process.

[PieterFP]

Someone from HP helped out to explain that in the BIOS you need to set the Harddisks or SSD to AHCI, then in trying to reinstall Windows clean the drives show up and you can re-format,

Worked great !

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Glad you got W10 reinstalled.