Trying to reinstall an old laptop, losing my hair trying to find a boot driver.

[[GSV]Lemming]

Hi all, hoping you can help me with an old laptop I have.

Its a 2014 HP Zbook 17, first generation, model D5D93AV. It came installed originally with windows 7, was upgraded to windows 8.

Its a big beast, i7 with an SSD and sata HDD and room for a further SSD. The powersupply weighs more than most modern laptops but its a great desktop replacement, it also has no optical drive.

I have tried to run a win10 install bit it stops at boot from USB asking for a driver, I searched the HP support website and it doesn't list it as win10 compliant and had no drivers.
Out of interest I tried win8.1 as well with the same result even though I have drivers. I have been through the support website and downloaded all the win8 drivers, they actually had a 700MB rollup pack which made it easy, and have browsed them all with zero success as it does not find any new driver when trying to run the install.

This leaves me a little stuck as I assumed it was a chipset or sata driver I needed so I can reinstall but I have tried all I can find.

I know its a longshot, but does anyone know what I could be missing here as its driving me insane to the point I will probably just go and buy a new machine.

 

[[GSV]Lemming]

Thanks for all the comments all.

I tried installing multiple OS's from all usb ports with no difference, I compared bios settings line by line with a colleague who had an identical machine issued at the same time, he had no issues and mine continued to fail asking for a driver. I upgraded the bios to latest and no change.
In the end I changed drive settings in bios from ahci to legacy and it went straight through and installed.

I tried lots of ahci drivers as suggested, I assumed this was the problem, I still don't know why it was a problem and none of them worked, but I am just relieved.

Thanks again for all the suggestions.