Installing Windows 10 on the HP Stream 7 Tablet

The HP Stream 7 is a reasonably priced, but quite powerful tablet that with Windows 8.1 with Bing is delivered. At present it is in Microsoft Store to get it for only 99 euros.

On this tablet is the current Technical Preview of Windows will install 10 and it runs really smooth. Unlike other low-cost Windows Tablets HP provides all the necessary drivers for download, you need to support touchscreen, motion sensor, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, etc..

However, you should keep a few tricks. Just download the ISO image of Windows 10, mount and setup click does not work. Windows 8.1 with Bing is a compressed operating system and cannot easily be replaced by another.

That you need to install Windows 10 on the tablet:

 

 

 

 

• Two 4 GB USB Sticks
• USB OTG cable to connect a USB-sticks on the Micro USB port of your tablet
• Keyboard, mouse and USB hub or keyboard with built-in USB hub (during installation can be a long time the touch screen to operate)
• German-speaking ISO file Windows 10 Technical Preview (x86)
• All required drivers from HP (except 'Order Recovery Media ")
• Freeware Rufus

Create Recovery Media

First you need from the existing operating system recovery media are applied to the original Windows restore in the event that something goes wrong, can 8.1.

Control on Large Icons switch and restore tap. On the next screen, then create recovery drive select.

Now connect a USB stick to the USB OTG cable and follow the instructions on the screen. It desperately needs a USB flash drive, memory cards are not supported.

This process takes a while. Best tablet equal to hang from the charger to the battery is fully during the reinstallation of Windows 10.

Create a bootable USB stick with Windows 10 TP

While the tablet applies the recovery disk, you can create parallel on the PC a bootable USB stick with Windows 10, which may take several minutes.

Since the tablet has no classical BIOS, but boots on UEFI, you need the freeware Rufus, to create a UEFI bootable USB stick. For the second USB stick is needed because the HP Stream 7 can not boot from memory card. Unfortunately, this does not every stick, as experience showed. It is best to take a 4 GB stick and no larger.

In Rufus in Create Bootable drive with the option select ISO image and select it using the button right next to the ISO file of Windows 10 Technical Preview. Here are the 32-bit version must be used 64 bit does not work.

Then select the top of the window Rufus following options: GPT partitioning scheme for UEFI computer , FAT32 , 4096 bytes . Then click on Start button and wait.

If the USB stick is finished, copy the downloaded HP driver on the stick. Since the download files only have numbers, best create individual folders with meaningful names for the different device driver on the USB stick.

Prepare BIOS

While the PC created the USB flash drive, the BIOS of the tablets can be already prepared for booting from USB. For this purpose, turn off the tablet and when turned on when the screen is slightly brighter, even before the HP logo appears, press the 'Leiser' button briefly. Now, a new menu in text mode and a small-screen keyboard to this to use with touch screen.

F10 key and setup in the BIOS under System Configuration / Boot Options , selectSecure Boot on Disabled place. Then, select Clear All Secure Boot Keys select. Here, a displayed number combination for security must be entered using the onscreen keyboard.

Save these settings in the BIOS, exit the BIOS and try to turn on the tablet.

Installing Windows 10

Now the USB hub must be connected via the OTG cable to the hub and the keyboard, mouse, and the bootable USB stick.

Then turn on your tablet again and press the 'Leiser' button. In F9 press for the boot manager appears.

If here the USB flash drive is missing, something went wrong when creating, eg incorrect partitioning scheme or file system.

Select the USB stick with the keyboard Enter key. Experience has shown that not every keyboard nor any USB hub works - so use other devices in doubt.

When the installation program is launched, select the German language, accept the license agreement and then Custom select. The upgrade installation works withWindows 8.1 with Bing not.

The next step is to select the large primary partition and on Next button. The next installation steps simply confirm.

The tablet will reboot. Then, a few basic settings must be made and a local user account to be created. Until now, the surface can only control with keyboard and mouse.

Windows 10 starts with the new classic desktop. As stated by Microsoft announced, are smaller tablet, previously with Windows 8.1 running, keep the classic desktop after the upgrade. Only new devices with screens smaller than 8 inches to get the new Windows 10 version 'for phones and small devices' without classic desktop.

Installing the Driver

Now with the Explorer the driver files from the USB stick on the tablet, eg in the download directory, copy.

All drivers must then be successively installed. In this case, the driver pack start (sp70337.exe). Some of the drivers, the tablet must be rebooted after installation.

Second, it makes sense to install the two Controller driver (sp69305.exe and sp69308.exe). Thereafter, the touch screen and USB hub works can be removed together with keyboard, mouse and USB stick.

Successively install all the drivers, besides wait to install the next always, until the previous one is completely installed and restart the tablet at the corresponding messages.

Produce Finally, Wi-Fi connection and Settings / Accounts register the native Microsoft account. During installation, the tablet was due to lack of network drivers offline and has initially created a local user account, which, inter alia, the synchronization OneDrive and the Windows Store cannot be used.

Until now, Windows 10 works on the HP Stream 7 easily. The 10 stronger again came to the fore in Windows classic desktop is a bit strange. Personally I use on the tablet, the Modern UI interface prefer.