Called HP they had me restore the computer this time it worked. But they did it slightly differently than Microsoft. Apparently recovery mode actually has a function to restore the computer without the need for recovery media.
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The system restored. But somehow it has all the bloatware now.
Seems like the heat issues are just an issue with the system. It’s almost as hot after the system restore as it was before.
Update: I misread the temperature reading.
My experience has been that name brand computers come with a recovery partition that you access by starting up with a defined function key combination. This recovery literally reinstalls the manufacturers original OS configuration with all the crapware.
Like many, I learned the hard way that completely getting rid of the crapware takes a lot of wasted time and effort.
Therefore, many of us learn to reinstall Windows using the .iso files provided by Microsoft. Minimum extra stuff, but still some MS crap.
As discussed by several of us in previous messages in this string, it seemed like you were running the recovery process previously, not the clean install process. Probably just my misinterpretation of what was being said.
Glad to hear you’re back up.
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The interesting part is when I try to recover from a recovery disk generated by the OS. Gonna try the media creation tool.
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Yep, a restore from the recovery partition will do that.
If you are not already on Windows 10 1909, I would download the update assistant and see if there is any incompatible hardware. You would need all the drivers from HP.
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Did that the installer is complaining that windows is already installed.
Okay, you’ll just have to go ahead download the media creation tool and create your USB stick with that. Windows Update should pick up the available drivers. Anything it doesn’t you’ll have to get from HP after installing Windows 10.
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That is what I did. The installer that the bootable drive leads to is what is giving me the error.
Right… you might have to live with the HP installer then and remove the bloatware manually. It’s good that HP has a cloud recovery option to reinstall Windows.
The odd part is I had some issues last fall and clean installed windows which worked fine until a few days ago.
Can’t figure out how to clean install. I give up. It’s not letting me run the installer it’s giving me some error. Won’t even let me choose to do a custom install.
Would be nice if Microsoft took a more strict approach to what can be preinstalled.
You’re obviously getting frustrated with this. If you have it in you for any more tries, I suggest you run the clean install again, and using another device, like a smartphone, take a photo of the error message you get and post it. Maybe one of us will recognise it and have a recommendation.
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Back up all files first,
And yes make the Windows install Usb on a different Windows 10 pc. Maybe you are confusing the UEFI/BIOS settings . MAke sure under Harddisk priorities you have the usb set first. then the the “boot order” set to USB hit F10 to save the changes to UEFi/BIOS then delete all partitions via installer then do a Fresh install of just Windows 10 .
95% chance you wont even need drivers from HP windows 10 will detect everything . and no bloatware.
Clean installs are always better.
I agree about deleting all partitions, including recovery partition if there is one. HP has cloud restore so deleting the recovery partition is no biggy.
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I wonder if your hard disk is getting tired. never know
I can’t even get to that menu. And also now the OS isn’t allowing me to set the secondary drive as the storage location for anything. The error I get when I try to make that change is associated with Windows Update.
Never mind I think I got it now. Seems to be working.
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Seems like the heat issues are a problem with the computer. Im still noticing that it’s already relatively hot and substantially less is running and substantially less of the storage is used.