How can I download windows on a new blank hard drive without the old one?

[Kimmy121]

My old hard drive died there’s so way for it to work and I bought a new hard drive but now I don’t know how to download windows on the new one without using my old account/hard drive. Is there a way I can put a new windows account on my new hard drive for my pc? 

[WAWood]

@Kimmy121 

You can not "download" anything onto a blank drive, period.  To be usable, a drive must be FORMATTED to contain a file system, and a blank drive has not been formatted.

What you basically have to do is download Windows install media to a USB stick.  You can then boot from that stick, with a PC that has the blank drive already connected, and install Windows to that drive,

But a better approach would be to read the info below about HP Cloud Recovery and see if you can use that:

If your PC is a 2016 model or newer, you should see if you can make a bootable USB recovery drive using the HP cloud recovery tool on a working PC.

The recovery drive can then be used to install Win10 and the HP drivers and utilities that originally came with your PC.

Here is the link: https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c06162205

[Prométhée]

Hi

@Kimmy121 

if your pc is not compatible, you just have to create an installation media with the Microsoft tool!

https://www.microsoft.com/fr-fr/software-download/windows10