Clean instal of Windows 10

[dmyronenko]

After some excellent advice from community members I'm about to do a clean install using the media tool that I now have downloaded on a flash drive. I'm just wanting to know and make sure I don't need anything else like something from HP as far as downloads to make sure my laptop comes out as close as possible to the way it was new out of the box? I really appreciate any and all advice. 

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

After you reinstall W10, you will need to install the drivers from your notebook's support page.

https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/hp-stream-14-ax000-laptop-pc/12499221/model/1690207...

Since those notebooks have such small capacity hard drives, when you get to the installation screen that asks 'where do you want to install windows?, I recommend that you delete every partition on the hard drive leaving just one partition of the full unallocated space, and then you will have the maximum amount of space available for future updates and a couple of programs.

[dmyronenko]

So is there a list of drivers that I need to download? I just don't want to screw this up.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Audio, graphics, sd card reader...There all listed on the support page.

[dmyronenko]

sorry for asking so many questions, but about the partition and deleting all but 1, I hope the system kinda walks me through that. does that happen?

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

That's OK

When you see this window during the installation, click on the X Delete icon shown at the bottom of the picture and delete all of the partitions until there is just one left.

It should show up as unallocated space.

And this is what you want it to look like when you are done deleting the partitons.

Then click on the Next button and W10 will automatically set up the drive so it can install.