Installation of Windows 10 to 15-n096st

[mech-eng]

Hİ, again. My operating system provider said me today that I cannot upgrade with that dvd, I can only boot it from dvd-writer. I found the correct option I came to a state which gives this notification: "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of GPT partition style" What will I do now?

A question: If a accept a post as a solution, then is this thread closed, even if the problem has not been solved?

Thank you.

[Huffer · Accepted solution]

No we can keep going but you should not mark Solution until your problem is solved. When you see that "can't install to this volume" you have to delete it...hit the "x". Then select to install in the unallocated space i.e make the whole drive blank unallocated...hit "new" and Windows 10 will make the GPT partitions you must have. If you leave any partition on the drive it will still be MBR and will not work. 

[mech-eng]

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@Huffer wrote:

No we can keep going but you should not mark Solution until your problem is solved. When you see that "can't install to this volume" you have to delete it...hit the "x". Then select to install in the unallocated space i.e make the whole drive blank unallocated...hit "new" and Windows 10 will make the GPT partitions you must have. If you leave any partition on the drive it will still be MBR and will not work. 

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my partitions are already in GPT, the problem is that they are GPT. "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of GPT partition style" . Probably I will have to change my all hard drive from GPT to MBR

[mech-eng]

Hi, thank you for you that it was as simple as you have explained.  I am writing this message from win 10 but now the problem is drivers. Would you please guide me for the drivers for win 10 as it is done in this

http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Operating-System-and-Recovery/windows-7-with-15-n096st/td-p/36...

in the above.

The main problem is with dvd-rom. It sees the dvds as empty.

Thank you.

[Huffer]

I had already posted this above:

HP has a full Windows 10 64 bit driver page for your model so this is going to be very easy:

http://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/HP-Pavilion-15-Notebook-PC-series/5401225/model/5443...

Install the HP Support Assistant and let it go to the HP Servers after install and pick up any updates you need. 

DVD drive may be another problem. Should not need a driver. 

[mech-eng]

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@Huffer wrote:

DVD drive may be another problem. Should not need a driver. 

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I do not think so because the problem has started with Win 10. Would you please explain what the problem might be? The dvd-writer might have an incompatibility with Win 10 ?

Thank you. 

[mech-eng]

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@Huffer wrote:

I had already posted this above:

HP has a full Windows 10 64 bit driver page for your model so this is going to be very easy:

http://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/HP-Pavilion-15-Notebook-PC-series/5401225/model/5443...

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When I installed Win 10, I saw that there was only one driver required, it was only video controller.  So situation is much different from Win 7 and XP.

Why are these drivers automatically installed?

Thank you.

[Huffer]

Video controller is not the video card....that is under display adapters. You should right click on that device/properties/details/hardware ids and tell us the description of the device and we can find you the correct driver.