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‎06-19-2025 07:25 AM

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Product: HP 17 Laptop PC 17-cp3000 (9Q8Z1AV)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 11

My laptop did an automatic bios update this morning. Everything seems to have worked properly. But I noticed that it put a folder "HP" on my removable thumb drive "D" which contains my pictures. That folder has 3 sub folders "BIOS", "BIOSUpdate", and "DEVFW", all of which contain more folders and files. WHY IS THIS ON MY THUMB DRIVE and can I delete it?

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‎06-19-2025 03:46 PM

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@mickymutt,

 

Yes, you can delete the HP folder from the usb drive.

 

I assume you clean installed Windows with a Windows installation usb drive created from Microsoft download center and that your EFI partition is 100 MB in size.

 

Normally, the BIOS update creates an HP folder in the EFI partition and three subfolders as you mentioned. The HP folder stores the BIOS update utility and BIOS files.

 

Not sure why the HP folder was created on the usb drive instead of the EFI partition. The possible explanation is that the EFI partition doesn't have enough space for the BIOS update.

 

Next time you try to update the BIOS and have a "There is not enough free space . . ." error, you would know why the HP folder was added on the usb drive.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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