New HP Pavilion in Spanish changed to English but OS still in Spanish

[AndersonCooper]

I just bought an HP Pavilion - in Spanish: I dutifully changed everything to English: however, Event Viewer, DOS (CMD), SYSCONFIG, REGEDIT etc all remain in Spanish: how can I fix this?

I have already done everything I can think of  - but none of them change the language of Event Viewer, DOS (CMD), SYSCONFIG, POWERSHELL, REGEDIT etc., even some entries in the device manager, all which remain in Spanish...

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

The only suggestion I can offer would be to clean install W10 and select English when you install it.

The first thing you need to do before doing that is to run the free utility that I zipped up and attached below that will show you the version of W10 that is installed in your notebook.

It might be W10, single language.  I don't know if the version shows up in the system info screen in the control panel.

That way when you get to the screen where you are asked to select the version of W10 you want to install, you will know if it is W10 Home or W10 Home, Single Language.

You can reinstall W10 for free by creating installation media using the media creation tool at the link below. You will need an 8 GB USB flash drive for that.

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

After W10 installs, you can install the drivers and available software from your PC's support page.

https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/hp-pavilion-17-ar000-laptop-pc/15551398

[AndersonCooper]

Thanks, that's exactly what I have done; however, the installation in the drives is not the same as before:

The out of the the box [Spanish] version, I think had 1 partition in each disk. Also

• even in the Spanish version, if I set the BIOS to the default, it would not boot at all - had to  switch on legacy support, which made no sense that the default in the BIOS didn't even work - it said it couldn't see the MBR: I haven't touched this, and don't know whether this is/was related to what the [default] BIOS may have been reading in these disks;
• disks 1 and 0 both have the option to convert to a dynamic disk - should I do this?
• the "recovery" has no options in terms of naming or assigning a letter
• the 100MB also has no options
• C  [now named "Laptop"] can be mounted in a different path - but I don't see the point

So the two burning issues as now installed concern performance:

• whether this reflects the BIOS default [which wouldn't boot the PC in the out of the box Spanish version]
• whether this is the best in terms of
  •  neither disk being "dynamic" and
  • in terms of the interaction between them; as far as I can tell the 1 TB HD is currently functioning nothing more than a huge warehouse...

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

Here's what I recommend...

Reinstall W10.

This time when you get to the part that asks 'where do you want to install windows,' delete every partition on the hard drive, leaving just one partition of unallocated space.  Click next and W10 will create the partitions it needs to run and then install.

Upon completion you should have one big C:\partition with plenty of room for your programs and files.

You have to leave the BIOS in legacy mode since the drive is MBR.

In order to enable UEFI boot, you need to convert the drive to GPT.

I don't know if it is worth the effort.