HP Notebook - 15-f111dx (ENERGY STAR) New Hard Drive

[brclm3]

Hello,

My hard drive recently crashed on my sons laptop. I have replaced the hard drive but the repair disk created back when the pc was first purchased is damaged and does not work.

I need to reinstall the operating system, is there disks or downloads avaliable to dot this? I have another laptop avaliable to download iso files onto a usb but don't want to purchase a new windows program for a pc that already had it.

any advise would be much appriciated.

Thank you

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

You can reinstall W10 for free as follows...

To reinstall W10...Use the Media Creation Tool.  Make the 64 bit installation media.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

You can make a W10 USB flash drive installer using an 8 GB flash drive using another Windows PC, since your PC is not working.

W10 will find the product key in your notebook's BIOS, install and automatically activate once you are connected to the internet.

Here are the steps to create the W10 USB flash drive installer...

1. Select Download tool now, and select Run.
2. If you agree to the license terms, select Accept.
3. On the What do you want to do? page, select Create installation media for another PC, and then select Next.

4. Select the language, edition, and architecture (64-bit or 32-bit) for Windows 10. You want 64 bit.

5. Select which media you want to use:
6. USB flash drive.  Plug in a blank USB flash drive with at least 8GB of space. Any content on the flash drive will be deleted.

Then you can install the drivers and available software from your notebook's support page.

https://support.hp.com/us-en/product/hp-15-f100-notebook-pc-touch/7630403

[brclm3]

Hello,

Thank you for the detailed response. I was able to follow your instructions very well but still came across some issues.

When installing the windows 10 onto a 16gig flash drive from another PC using the media creation tool it would process the first step to 100% then when running the second step it would go to about 29% then give an error code 0x80042405-0xa001a.

I tried this process several times and reformationg the flash drive before each attempt but was given the same error code.

Any advice would be greatly appriciated.

Thank you very much

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

That seems to be a common error when it happens.

Here is a video where the youngster says doing it his way will work.

Sounds like you format the flash drive in FAT 32, then copy and paste the Media creation tool installer to the flash drive and run it from the flash drive as an administrator (right click on the Media creation tool exe file, select Run as Administrator).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9e1d7SwrU0

There are also a couple of other options for you...

1. Download the ISO file instead of creating the USB flash drive, and use the tool I zipped up and attached below to transfer the file to your USB flash drive, or burn it to a DVD.

2. If the tool I zipped up and attached below doesn't work, burn the ISO file to a DVD using this free software.

When you open the file, select the Burn ISO file option and burn the file at the slowest speed you can.

https://www.cdburnerxp.se/en/download