Win 10 won’t install

[Campbellkidz1]

On my dv6 6000 I lost my restore disk where can I get one without having to pay I can’t afford it, and I got usb windows 10 install media but when I try to install it says install or destination media is to small and this ain’t right, the laptop has a new 230 gig hard drive I just put in, how can I get windows 10 to install if I can get my original 64 bit windows restore disks which had windows 7 on it and all the drivers, I could really use the help this is my sons laptop and we don’t have much money I can’t afford to purchase one from hp?

[ieee488]

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@Campbellkidz1 wrote:

On my dv6 6000 I lost my restore disk where can I get one without having to pay I can’t afford it, and I got usb windows 10 install media but when I try to install it says install or destination media is to small and this ain’t right, the laptop has a new 230 gig hard drive I just put in, how can I get windows 10 to install if I can get my original 64 bit windows restore disks which had windows 7 on it and all the drivers, I could really use the help this is my sons laptop and we don’t have much money I can’t afford to purchase one from hp?

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Run on sentence much?

Take a 8 GB USB hard drive and use Media Creation Tool on another PC to create the Windows 10 installation media.

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[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi, @Campbellkidz1

If you can still read all 25 characters of the W7 product key on your notebook's case, you can make your own W7 installation media as follows...

Click on the Windows ISO Downloader.exe link to download the tool to create the W7 ISO file download.

Select the Windows COEM ISO file download for the version of W7 the product key is good for.

https://www.heidoc.net/joomla/technology-science/microsoft/67-microsoft-windows-and-office-iso-downl...

I have zipped up and attached the Microsoft utility below, that will allow you to either put the file on a USB flash drive or DVD, or you can use a different free utility such as Rufus.

Then you can install the drivers and available software from the PC's support page...

https://support.hp.com/us-en/product/hp-pavilion-dv6-6000-entertainment-notebook-pc-series/5048664

[Campbellkidz1]

That’s what I had done. Still don’t work and comes back with a error like 000025 I think.

[Campbellkidz1]

Thank you all so much I got it working Thanks to your help!

[Campbellkidz1]

I have made the windows 10 install media from usb sticks twice now and they will not install, either it says my install media is to small (8 gb) or something is wrong with winload.exe

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

If you reinstalled W7, you can simply upgrade back to W10 as follows...no need to create installation media.

Click on the blue Update Now button at the link below, and reinstall W10.

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

If you are asked to enter a product key during the installation, select the 'I don't have a product key' option, and W10 will install and automatically activate once you are connected to the internet.