topic Re: Driver missing when installing Windows 11 in Mobile and Desktop Processors

Driver missing when installing Windows 11

kekoponte — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 16:23:06 GMT

I've just purchased an HP Omen 14 and I want to install Windows. I don't have any other Windows computer so I can build a Windows 11 boot drive manually but not with the Windows 11 Installation Media.

I've made a USB drive with Windows 11 but when I try to install it, it keeps asking for a missing driver. The HP Page only have drivers in .exe format (and as I said, I don't have any other windows computer). Is it possible to have the required drivers in any other format?

These are the specs:

Processor: Intel® Core™ Ultra 9 185H (up to 5.1 GHz with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology, 24 MB L3 cache, 16 cores, 22 threads)

Hard drive: 1 TB PCIe® Gen4 NVMe™ Performance M.2 SSD

Graphics (integrated): Intel® Arc™ Graphics

Graphics (discrete): NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4060 Laptop GPU (8 GB GDDR6 dedicated)

Memory: 32 GB LPDDR5x-7467 MT/s (onboard) Transfer rates up to 7467 MT/s. onboard

Re: Driver missing when installing Windows 11

AlHill — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 16:26:33 GMT

Use the Windows 11 media creator here:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11

Doc (not an Intel employee or contractor)
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Re: Driver missing when installing Windows 11

kekoponte — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 17:09:02 GMT

Thanks for your reply, AlHill. As I mentioned in my post, I don't have another Windows PC. Is it possible to have the actual drivers to install Windows from a bootable ISO?

Re: Driver missing when installing Windows 11

AlHill — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 17:19:42 GMT

What drivers? I would be surprised if the windows install media did not have them.

Go to a friends house or library and use the windows pc there to make the install media.

Doc (not an Intel employee or contractor)
[Fear and the desire for control are primary motivators for shadow dwellers. ]

Re: Driver missing when installing Windows 11

kekoponte — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 17:33:05 GMT

The only feedback that the installation process gives using a manual made Windows 11 bootable drive with the ISO from Microsoft is a "controller driver" so I suppose it's a Intel storage controller driver (for the Intel® Core™ Ultra processor family).

I was trying to find a workaround to the "media creation tool process" as I'm currently 50 miles away from any other human being

Re: Driver missing when installing Windows 11

AlHill — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 17:41:02 GMT

Most all of these that I have seen is due to the media not being created properly, which is why I refer users to the microsoft link.

Doc (not an Intel employee or contractor)
[Fear and the desire for control are primary motivators for shadow dwellers. ]

Re: Driver missing when installing Windows 11

kekoponte — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 17:47:25 GMT

Maybe.. I'm not using an image flash app or anything like that but dd command in ubuntu 22.04, I think that should create a good bootable drive with no errors but who knows.

Anyway, thanks a lot for your help. I'll wait till I travel back to busy Madrid. Best