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‎09-17-2022 02:34 PM

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Product: HP Notebook - 15-dw0037wm
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 11

The hard drive crashed on my hp notebook.  I bought and installed a new hard drive, but I am unsure how to get windows back. The original laptop was pre-loaded with windows 10 and I just upgraded to windows 11 a few months ago. I am out of warranty and I do not have a USB backup.  I am stuck with no boot device. 

 

Any recommendations on how to get windows back would be very appreciated. 

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‎09-17-2022 02:53 PM

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@Mike3111 

 

What is on new HDD ? Did you put Windows 11 on new HDD properly ? 

 

Your machine does not have optical drive (ie CD/DVD) you can build installation media using USB stick then use it to boot and install Windows 11 on new HDD

 

                      https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11

 

Windows 11 will activate itself later.

 

Regards.

 

 

BH
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