Ars Technica

HP Stream 11 - How to boot from USB?

I am trying to (re-) install Windows 10 Preview on my HP Stream 11 laptop, and somehow I am unable to make the machine boot from USB. I have created the Win10 USB stick using both the Microsoft ...
Houston Chronicle

How to Use the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool

Hewlett-Packard's USB Disk Storage Format Tool is a utility that you can use to format removable flash drives and other external USB hard drives. One benefit of using this tool is that you can create ...
Ars Technica

Resetting an HP laptop that was upgraded from 8.1 to 10?

I just received an HP 15-r132wm laptop that was originally installed with Windows 8.1 but now has 10. We don't have the user PIN, and I'm not interested in any of the data on this machine. I thought ...
Liliputing

Install Windows XP on a netbook (USB stick method)

Update: Before you try all of this, you may want to try using WinToFlash, a utility designed to create a bootable Windows flash drive for Windows XP/Vista/7/Server. If this works for you, you can skip ...