How to do a clean install when the mouse pointer does not appear neither the drives?

Question

I'm attempting a clean install of Windows 11 on my HP Victus 16-d0xxx laptop using a bootable USB drive created with the Windows 11 Installation Media ( Download Windows 11 ).

When I restart my laptop while holding Shift and select the USB drive as the boot device, the mouse cursor doesn't appear. I've tried navigating the installation process using only the keyboard. However, when I reach the screen where I'm supposed to choose a drive for installation, only the USB drive is listed. I have two other drives: a 1TB C: drive and a 300GB D: drive.

EDIT:

Here are some images as reference

Pointer appears only on this part where one has to choose between the Drives and the USB. Then, after choosing USB, the pointer disappears. Next is where I am at when navigating only with the keyboard.

Answer 1

Alfonso,

If all of your applications work normally and Windows is activated, you don’t have to worry anything about. Since you have wiped everything, all your cracked software and its related files will be removed during the process. Currently, you are running the latest versions of Windows with all the security updates installed. Nothing to worry about. You can use your device normally.

Best regards,

Gunasekar N

Answer 2

Thanks for your help, Gunasekar. I will save this thread to read it in the future if I want to do a clean install since I did not extract the files to the flash drive (I am assuming that in the future there might be an update).

Again, thanks! :-)

Answer 3

Alfonso Pizarro, thank you for feedback.

I am glad that I could help! Incase if you need any help again in the future, please reach out to our community, we are always here to help you!

Best regards,

Gunasekar N