WIN10 INSTALLATION VIA BOOTABLE USB

[emoonde]

Good day,

I recently bought an HP Pavilion 11th Generation SSD. It has Windows 10 Pro Home which is working fine. However, I wish to install Win 10 Pro via Bootable USB.

The challenge I have is am not able to see any drivers every time I wish to install Win10 Pro.

Am asking for help and thank you in advance.

Regards

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

You need to do an in-place upgrade from Home to Pro because when you clean install W10 Pro, it is going to find the W10 Home key in the BIOS, and you will end up with a clean installation of W10 Home.

If you have a W10 Pro product key, this is what you do...

1. Select Start > Settings > Update & Security > Activation.

2. Under Upgrade your edition of Windows, select Change product key.

3. Enter the 25-character Windows 10 Pro product key.

4. Select Next to start the upgrade to Windows 10 Pro.

If you ever need to clean install W10 Home, you need to follow this procedure on notebooks with the Intel 11th gen core processors...

See the info at the link below.

https://support.hp.com/us-en/product/hp-15-f2000-laptop-pc-series/35900344/model/35900346/document/c...

Here is the link to the driver you need...

This package contains the Intel Rapid Storage Technology Driver for the supported notebook models and operating systems. The Intel Rapid Storage Technology is designed to provide functionality for the Intel Storage Controllers. The driver improves Serial ATA (SATA) disk performance with Native Command Queuing.

https://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp111501-112000/sp111776.exe

There is an error in that document, and that is where HP tells you to right click on the Intel driver file and select Extract to

When I ran through the steps, I don't get an Extract to option when I right click on the file.

You will probably have the same issue.  Download and install the free 7-zip file utility from the link below.

The 2nd file at the top of the page is for 64 bit.

7-Zip (7-zip.org)

Then you can right click on the exe file, select 7-Zip from the menu, and select Extract to:  and let it extract the file into its folder name (sp111776), and copy that folder to your USB flash drive, and continue with the instructions.