If you’re still using Windows 10 on your HP laptop, how to install Windows 11 on HP laptop? In this guide, we’ll show you 2 ways to upgrade your HP laptop to a Windows 11 HP laptop.
When Windows 11 was released, many users reproached its various weird glitches and bugs. Now, after several updates, many problems have been solved. Thus, some users may decide to upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11 in this chance to enjoy a better Windows 11 on their desktops or laptops.
Although settings or features have changed after updates, the basic system requirements of Windows 11 are still the same as before:
• 64-bit processor with at least 2 cores and 1 GHz processing speed • 4GB RAM • 64GB storage space (in addition to the space for the operating system installation software) • DirectX 12 or later graphics card with WDDM 2.0 driver • A high-def display of 720p • TPM 2.0 • Secure Boot capable UEFI firmware
If you don’t know whether your HP computer is compatible or not, you can download the Microsoft PC health check tool from the website to check your device.
▶ If your computer is compatible, you’ll see:
▶ If not, the tool will show you the reason why your device can’t upgrade or install Windows 11:
If your HP laptop is compatible or you’ve fixed incompatible hardware, now you can follow the guide to install Windows 11 on HP laptop. Next, we’ll show you how to install Windows 11 from Windows Installation Media and how to quickly install Windows 11 via a third-party OS migration tool.
To create the installation media, you should first go to the official website of Microsoft where you can download the media creation tool.
Step 1. Connect the USB flash drive to your PC, wait until it’s detected by the OS, and then, do a HP Windows 11 ISO download.
Step 2. When the download is completed, open the exe. File. Click on “Accept” at the start of the Windows 11 Setup window.
Step 3. Select “Create installation media for another PC” and hit “Next”. And select language, edition, and hit “Next”.
Step 4. Choose a media you want to use. Here, we choose “USB flash drive”.
Step 5. Select the USB flash drive and start the downloading process.
Step 1. Plug the installation USB into your PC and reboot it. Enter BIOS and use the arrow key to place the USB the first in the boot sequence. Hit “ENTER” to save the changes and press ESC to quit BIOS.
Note: Ways to enter BIOS could be different in terms of the type of your Windows system.
Step 2. Power on your PC again, and this time, it will boot from the USB flash drive. In a short while, the Windows 11 setup window will appear where you need to preset language, time and currency format, and input method.
Step 3. Click on “Install Now”. In the next window, enter the product key. If you don’t have the product key, click on “I don’t have a product key”.
Step 4. Choose an OS edition you wish to install and click “Next”.
Step 5. Accept the License Term and click “Next”, click “Custom: Install Windows only (advanced)” in the next window.
Step 6. Choose the target disk you wish to install Windows 11 OS, then click “Next”.
Step 7. Please wait for the process and your PC will reboot.
Then you can enjoy your Windows 11 HP laptop.
Some users who have already installed or upgraded to Windows 11 on a computer may want to use a familiar Windows 11 on an HP laptop, or if the first way fails on your HP laptop, there is an easier and faster method to install Windows 11: OS migration.
With a reliable and handy tool—AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional, you can quickly transfer a Windows 11 OS to your HP laptop without the cumbersome steps of clean installing the system. It’s a Windows disk and partition management tool for Windows 11/10/8/8.1/7/XP systems.
This tool will migrate all system-needed files and partitions to the target disk, after the migration, you only need to insert your disk back to the target PC and boot it to use the system. What’s more, if you need, you can clone the whole Windows 11 disk to quickly transfer your HP laptop to a Windows 11 laptop.
Here are steps of how to install Windows 11 for HP laptop.
Step 1. Connect the disk of the target computer to a Windows 11 computer. Then, install and run AOMEI Partition Assistant, choose "Clone" and “Migrate OS” in the top menu.
Step 2. Click “Next in the new window.
Step 3. Choose an unallocated space on your disk.
Step 4. Now you need to resize the size of the partition, and click “Next”.
Step 5. Click "Finish" to continue.
Step 6. Click “Apply” in the upper-left corner.
Then, plug the disk back into your computer, and start it.
Warning: Please change the boot order if your computer has one more disk.
This is how to install Windows 11 on HP laptop. With AOMEI Partition Assistant, you can quickly make any computer a Windows 11 PC. If your HP computer is not compatible with Windows 11 but you really need this system for work, you can choose the “Windows To Go Creator” feature to make a portable Windows 11 USB to run on any computer, even on an incompatible PC.
Besides all the features we introduced above, this tool can also move folders and installed programs, clean PC, wipe/erase disks completely…