It sounds like the driver issue might be specific to the touchpad on your Victus by HP Gaming Laptop. This can happen if Windows doesn't automatically detect the correct drivers after a clean reinstall, especially for custom drivers. Here are a few steps you can try ...
Download the Windows 11 touchpad driver from the HP Support page. Right-click the downloaded driver and select Properties. Go to the Compatibility tab, check Run this program in compatibility mode for: Select Windows 10 and click Apply > OK. Install the driver and restart your system....
I have a HP Victus 16-d1xxx FreeDOS. I created a Windows 10 USB by using Rufus and installed it ( Pressed F9 on start and selected my USB to boot, just as usual). Everything went well. After the boot and Win10 setup, my PC started and I started ...