MBR partition -disk clean to intall windows, HPProbook 430 G5

[veteriarian]

Hello there. I joust bought the HP Probook 430 G5 3kx72es  withought operating system. I do have a win8.1 product key. I downloaded the WIn8.1 ISO file anddid a bootable usb MBR and GPT format.Neither of them worked. I always recieved: Windows cannot be installed to this disk. the selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, windows can only be installed to GPT disks.I  searched a bit on thenet and found out that I sould change the format of the disk to MBR. there wehre 3 partitions . 2 systemand one that was the main memory (497 gb) . unfortunately thecommand line (as in theforum of HP was said) didnt worked. Therefore I improvided. I typed clean and then convenrt to MBR. And it worked.  afterthat I found only one partition 470 the main one , which it was converted. theinstallation did worked. I wanttoask ifi lost important information due to that cleaning. thank you alot

[ieee488]

From where did you download the Windows 8.1 ISO ?

Microsoft doesn't offer it, and neither does HP.

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[CherylG]

@veteriarian

You didn't lose anything. The extra partitions were probably left over from the previous installation of Windows and weren't deleted/formatted along with the OS partition.

@ieee488

Microsoft does provide Windows 8.1 iso:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows8ISO

[veteriarian]

@Provost thank you for your answer.  Let my clarify something. The notebook is brandnew, without operation system. It is the first installation of the windows ever. I think the files were (and now maybe after cleaning are lost?) are the system files from HP  like warranty and the manual pdf file. Maybe more?  Can I find those files again. If I reset the computer to factory setting? The other thing is that after installing windows the notebook does not have wlan. Propably the driver is missing? But I am wondering why. Shouldt that be installed with the windows installation? I do not know if I did something wrong, and how to fix it.  😞

[ieee488]

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@CherylG wrote:

@veteriarian

@ieee488

Microsoft does provide Windows 8.1 iso:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows8ISO

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Great to know!

I will be downloading them when I am not at home (my internet is cheap and slow).  LOL.

[ieee488]

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@veteriarian wrote:

@Provost thank you for your answer.  Let my clarify something. The notebook is brandnew, without operation system. It is the first installation of the windows ever. I think the files were (and now maybe after cleaning are lost?) are the system files from HP  like warranty and the manual pdf file. Maybe more?  Can I find those files again. If I reset the computer to factory setting? The other thing is that after installing windows the notebook does not have wlan. Propably the driver is missing? But I am wondering why. Shouldt that be installed with the windows installation? I do not know if I did something wrong, and how to fix it.  😞

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There are many videos on Youtube on how to do a clean installation of Windows 8.1

You will be able to see it step by step.

Search on Clean install Windows 8.1

[CherylG]

Where did you purchase it-  I thought Probook 430 G5 shipped with Windows 10 or FreeDos.

Windows 8.1 doesn't have builtin drivers for most of the hardware because it is newer than Windows 8 OS. HP doesn't have any Windows 8.1 drivers posted for your model. You could have Realtek or Intel Wireless adapter. Try one of the drivers below.

Intel Wireless:
https://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp87501-88000/sp87628.exe
Realtek Wireless: 
https://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp91501-92000/sp91514.exe

 Manuals and other info for your laptop are on your Support page:

https://support.hp.com/us-en/product/hp-probook-430-g5-notebook-pc/17047126/manuals

[veteriarian]

Thank all for respornding. So i have to re install win 10. i can not find  drivers for 8.1.

@CherylG thank you.  I bought it with FreeDos.  I am  a noob. So here is what happend. the Laptop came with Freedos. 2 partitions.  The one partitions is the empty hard drive(SSD) and the other partition was  the system reserved partition. In order to install the windows I had to format the drive. Unfortunatelly as a noob I did it wrong. I now saw that i hade to make a new partition  and so on. What I did? I format the initial partition. And lost also the system reserved partition.  There where HP staff. the user guide, the warrantly , UEFI Manager  and so on. I hope It was not a disaster what i Did. I try to download them.

That was my mistake . Hopefully It is not a big disaster. Is it?? Do you know how I can restore the lost partition?

 PS the update of the windows is not working at all. hopefully with the new  windows it will be better

[ieee488]

Discussion continued at https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Operating-System-and-Recovery/FreeDos-notebook-system-reserve...

Do not waste time here.

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