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‎04-29-2022 08:50 PM

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@Paul_Tikkanen has the Win10 iso truly become that big? I remember flashing it with like 4 or 8gb sticks.

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‎04-29-2022 09:09 PM - edited ‎04-29-2022 09:13 PM

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It's not a W10 ISO file.

 

It is a complete factory image of the PCs drive as it came from HP, complete with all drivers and programs installed.

 

It is probably a little more than 16 GB in size, but the next size USB flash drive is 32 GB.

 

If you want to use the media creation tool to create a bootable USB installer with an 8 GB USB flash drive, clean install W10, and then manually install all of the drivers and available software from the PC's support page, you can do that as well.

 

Download Windows 10 (microsoft.com)

 

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‎04-29-2022 09:09 PM - edited ‎04-29-2022 09:13 PM

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It's not a W10 ISO file.

 

It is a complete factory image of the PCs drive as it came from HP, complete with all drivers and programs installed.

 

It is probably a little more than 16 GB in size, but the next size USB flash drive is 32 GB.

 

If you want to use the media creation tool to create a bootable USB installer with an 8 GB USB flash drive, clean install W10, and then manually install all of the drivers and available software from the PC's support page, you can do that as well.

 

Download Windows 10 (microsoft.com)

 

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