Best Wiping & Installing Win10 Method for HP Laptop

sn00ker said:

Yeah, it just as I thought the whole back cover needs to come off. I hate nowadays these manufacturers in how they've changed that part, the older laptops you were able just to remove specific covers which either would remove the hard drive or memory stick and battery. Now they're making people believe its best that they the manufacturer do any hardware replacement. Though, it still can be done by the consumers if the one doing it knows a little about stuff like that, if not? Then it's best not to touch it. I'm sure there got to be a youtube video in showing how to dismantle your model

Thank you for your time, my friend. I appreciate your advice. I eventually might give it a go and upgrade the parts. So far I am ok with what I have. Once the warranty goes, then I might consider or possibly sooner if I need it to be faster.

In the mean time, I am actually at the moment wiping out the drive via diskpart command and then I will reinstall it via my Installation flash drive I created. I then decided I want to give this tutorial by Kari a go on Factoryrecovery - Create a Custom Recovery Partition This will save me tons of time as I do about 2-3 of wipes and clean installs a year.

Hey Everyone,

I would like to update you on what I have decided on when it comes to clean installing. Also, even though I will mark this as solved I might have some more questions down the road because as I continually revisit this for better understanding and learning I am sure I will have some more or I might just start another thread.

I've decided to use the diskpart command, thank you @Brink for that one, for doing the wiping method and followed the clean install tutorial for the rest. I think overall this will be my go to option because when I tried the Reset PC and wipe all option for some reason it stalled at 42% and I don't want to take a chance in the future. Diskpart worked great! I also, depending if I need to do quicker wipe and clean installs, I will do the clean install delete partition and format option.

Otherwise, thank you again for your time and assistance! I hope everyone is having a great day so far!

Brink said:

Glad we could help Jeff. Please let us know how it went.

Sure thing Shawn! Actually, I did above your post. Let me know what I missed.

Brink said:

I find the method in the clean install tutorial to delete all partitions the easiest way.

Awesome! I am looking forward to doing it that way next time, unless my OCD part of me feels like getting a more 000000'd out approach I'll do diskpart again. By formatting after deleting the partition in the clean install tutorial how much time will that add to the process?