I think you are going down the wrong rabbit hole, I've had this issue regularly after imaging drives, & most recently last week, after doing an image.
(reboots, it boots fine, it is just cold boots, where it can't find the boot drive)
The most common cause, is simply the boot order in modern(5yr+ bioses).
If you get into Bios, you will likely see two entries, SSD name & SSD name(followed by 'Windows boot manager' or 'UEFI or similar') Simply swap the order of these, - so that the 2nd one, boots first, and that should fix your problem.
Make the media and install fresh (when asked where you want to install, wipe the current drive and create new partitions - it will create the extra partitions it needs).
As said earlier, Win10 is pretty good at finding drivers etc., so long as your parents don't need the HP bloatware that comes with the standard HP image (and even if they do, the HP website should have it).
I have done this a few times with Dell computers, and it works everytime. Dells Support Assist makes the driver installation really easy. HP has something similar?
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