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‎01-31-2024 06:26 AM

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Product: HP ENVY Notebook - 15t-ae100 CTO (ENERGY STAR)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

my hard drive broke and I need a USB Boot drive to install windows 10 64bit

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‎01-31-2024 07:35 AM

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You can reinstall W10 for free by making a bootable W10 installation flash drive with the media creation tool from the link below.

 

Download Windows 10 (microsoft.com)

 

After W10 has completed installing, you can install the drivers and available software from your notebook's support page.

 

HP ENVY Notebook - 15t-ae100 CTO (ENERGY STAR) Software and Driver Downloads | HP® Support

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‎01-31-2024 08:45 AM

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hello Paul,

are u assuming that I have my windows 10 license and my HHD is still working? because my situation is my HDD is not usable so in the process windows license is not retrievable. I am looking to get the USB boot drive from HP with an active license.

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‎01-31-2024 09:07 AM

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If your notebook came with W10 from HP, the Windows product key is encrypted in the notebook's BIOS, and is not stored on the hard drive.

 

You shouldn't need a product key to reinstall W10.

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