Hi,
Hoping someone can help out, I've trawled the internet and I'm not finding the solution. I'm quite experienced with hardware and software but I've been away from Windows for a long time and I'm really struggling.
I've got a HP Elitebook 745 G2. I believe it was originally installed with Windows 7 but the HD failed and I've just installed a brand new SSD.
I've created a Windows 10 USB boot disk (a few different ways, but essentially with the ISO from MS).
After a massive mess around trying to find the right BIOS options (USB3 / Legacy / UEFI / CSM etc) I've managed to get a USB stick booting, I get to the first screen which asks me to 'install windows 10', then I get a prompt suggesting that it doesn't have the relevant drivers it needs.
I've tried downloading the HP SoftPaq for this model for Windows 10 and extracting it to a second USB stick, the only 'installable' driver appears to be in the 'Realtek' folder, however, once I select this I get a progress bar that goes to 100% then restarts and repeats. The only way out of this loop is to power off the laptop.
What is the correct procedure for installing Windows 10 from the ISO on a clean disk? HP discusses recovery media and software kits but none of these are appropriate because either I have to order Windows 7 DVDs from HP or I have to have a Windows 10 install running on the laptop so I can create the recovery disks (which I don't have as it's a brand new HD).
I'm suspecting that there must be some driver files somewhere that I can copy to the USB stick to get moving but, having tried that, now I'm not so sure.
This machine will boot Linux no problem so I can assume it's fundamentally working.
I can't believe in 2017 this is really that complicated? How come Windows 10 doesn't have sufficient driver support for a 2 year old laptop?
Can anyone offer any advice specific to this model of machine?
Many Thanks
Andrew
Submitted October 30, 2017 at 05:15PM by andrewtayloruk http://ift.tt/2yYE6nU
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