Windows 10 fresh installation on the HP Stream tablet

I performed a fresh installation of Windows 10 on my Stream 7 tablet and it worked well. I posted the procedures I used below in case it may be able to help someone. One warning is that you have to first upgrade the original Windows 8.1 with Bing installation in-place letting Windows 10 activate before wiping the disk clean and installing Windows 10 fresh. If you do not do this, Windows 10 will not activate when it is installed fresh. If Windows 10 tells you that you do not have enough room to upgrade, you may have to restore the tablet back to the factory configuration using the recovery media. Other reports indicate you can also complete the upgrade by pointing to an external drive. If you recover, you will not need to apply any Windows 8.1 updates after the recovery, you can update to Windows 10 directly from the USB immediately after the tablet is restored to the factory configuration. First make a recovery USB of your existing Windows 8.1 with Bing installation. Download the Windows 10 32-bit ISO file and burn it to a USB drive. Updating Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 on the HP Stream Tablet
- With Windows 8.1 running, start the setup program from the Windows 10 USB drive.
- When it prompts "Get Important Updates?" select "Not Right Now".
- Accept the license agreement
- When it prompted me to "Change What To Keep" I selected "Nothing".
- Click the Install button, the upgrade took 30 minutes on my Stream 7.
- When the upgrade finishes, add a WiFi connection and go to the Start button => System and make sure it says "Windows is Activated". You can stop here if you have enough disk space and do not want to do the fresh install. The 5.2 GB Recovery partition from Windows 8.1 can also be deleted now since Windows 10 creates its own 450 MB recovery partition for WIMBoot. Unfortunately it seems the C: drive cannot be extended to include the 5.2 GB of space so an additional drive letter (such as "D:") will need to be created to utilize it. Deleting the 5.2 GB Windows 8.1 recovery partition (only do this if have upgraded to Windows 10)
- Attach a OTG adapter, powered USB hub, USB drive containing the 32-bit Windows 10 ISO, mouse and keyboard.
- Press F9 on the keyboard as the tablet powers up to enter the boot menu.
- Select the USB drive to boot from.
- Select "Install Now"
- Select "skip product key"
- Accept the license terms
- Select: "Custom: Install Windows only (advanced)"
- Delete the Drive 0 Partition 5: IMAGES 5.2 GB Recovery partition.
- Do not delete the Drive 0 Partition 4 450 MB Recovery partition, Windows 10 created this for WIMBoot and it will not boot without it. If you want to do a fresh Windows 10 install, you can also wipe the drive completely clean at this point. This will provide the greatest amount of available disk space for the C: drive (21.1 GB free of 28.5 GB following the fresh install). Fresh installation of Windows 10 on the HP Stream tablet
- Make sure Windows 10 has already been upgraded from Windows 8.1 and is activated.
- Attach a OTG adapter, powered USB hub, USB drive containing the 32-bit Windows 10 ISO, mouse and keyboard.
- Press F9 on the keyboard as the tablet powers up to enter the boot menu.
- Select the USB drive to boot from.
- Select "Install Now"
- Select "skip product key"
- Accept the license terms
- Select: "Custom: Install Windows only (advanced)"
- Delete all partitions
- Click the Next button, the install will take around 30 minutes.
- When prompted for a product key, select "do this later".
- Add a WiFi connection.
- Answer the prompts about sending data to Microsoft, I answered no to all of these.
- For some unknown reason, I was prompted to repeat the above two or three steps again here.
- When Windows boots for the first time, right click the Start Button => System and check that it says "Windows is Activated". The RTL8723BS WiFi driver is already installed after a fresh installation but the other five drivers needed for the Stream 7, (Driver Pack, Bluetooth, Realtek audio, Goodix touchscreen and Kionix motion sensor) have to be installed from the Windows 8.1 drivers available from hp.com. The Stream 8 may have additional drivers needed. The drivers site on hp.com for the Stream tablet has been going up and down periodically since the tablet was introduced so you might want to download the dirvers first and copy them to the Windows 10 USB before attempting the installation.

Hve you had any problems with the side swipe gestures to open app switcher and action center after installing the Goodix drivers?After upgrading to Windows 10, everything worked great, but after a system reset, I have not been able to get the side swipe gestures and the start button to work at the same time.After the reset is finnished and before installing any HP drivers, side swipe gestures works without problems, but the start button is disabled. Then I installed all Windows 10 drivers from HP.com, except the Googix-driver. Nothing changes.After I install the goodix driver, the start button is working, but side swipe gestures no loger works.I have tried to reset the device several times, with the same result each time.

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