Upgrade Pavillion 15 to 2TB SSD and Clean install Windows 11

[Pursuivant]

I am trying to upgrade my Pavillion 15 - eg0049na to a Samsung 990Pro NVMe 2TB SSD and make a clean install of Windows 11.

When using the Windows media creation tool the system boots and then does not see the new drive, only the installation drive.

I have tried several fixes with no joy.

Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.

Thomas.

[tk_srq]

@Pursuivant,

If your notebook has an Intel Core 11th gen processor, you need to supply Intel RST storage drivers to the Windows installer, otherwise the installation setup can't detect the Samsung SSD to install Windows on.

You can follow the steps below to install IRST drivers.

1. Use a Windows installation usb drive created with Microsoft Media Creation Tool (an ISO file-based installation usb drives may cause errors during the IRST driver installation).

2. Download Intel RST driver from the link below. Run it as administrator and follow the on-screen instructions to perform the driver extraction.

https://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp146501-147000/sp146929.exe

3. Go to C:\SWSetup\sp146929. Double click the sp146929 folder and copy the F6 folder to the root directory of a Windows installation usb drive. The F6 folder contains IRST drivers which the installation setup needs to detect the storage drive.

4. Connect the usb drive to the notebook and boot the system from the usb drive. When asked where to install Windows, click on Load Driver -> Browse -> the usb drive in the window that opens -> the F6 folder -> OK.

5. Multiple .inf driver files may be displayed. Select one and click Next. If no driver files are displayed, uncheck the box on the bottom left corner of the screen to display drivers. Find and select an 'iaStorVD.inf ' file and click Next to load the driver.

6. The storage drive may be displayed with 'unallocated space.'  Click Next to proceed the installation.

If this doesn't work, you may need to use HP Cloud Recovery tool, so let me know how it goes.