I'm working on my coworkers laptop. Trying to speed it up for her. It has a failing HDD and win 10 home. I stuck an SSD In it and expected to reinstall windows. But it will not boot windows installer. It hangs on an HP screen and reboots... I eventually got the original hard disk booting off of a USB enclosure. I think my only option is cloning. The UEFI appears to be diagnostic only. Any ideas?
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Installing windows 10 on 2015 era HP 15
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install ten on another system and then transplant the drive. just make sure the boot type is the same, legacy/ahci etc
I never thought of that. I cloned the drive and it works. Considering this laptop is worth all of $100 or so ( AMD A6, TN panel. pretty horrible . It does have 8gb of Ram though ) I think I'll leave it at that without going too much more into it
Sometimes the Secure boot/UEFI settings in the BIOS can cause USB booting issues. If I get that I switch on all the SBoot/UEFI settings and set USB to primary boot and try that. If no luck i switch off all the Secure Boot/UEFI stuff and use Legacy mode. Either works but sometimes it gets a mix as companies like HP do odd stuff from the factory.