Lroy Posted August 28, 2016 Report Share Posted August 28, 2016 Was trying to wipe my old laptop (HP Pavilion 14-b141sa) and factory reset it back to Windows 10 (originally came with 8.) All went well, got to the bit when you set up Windows and you are connecting it to the WiFi when woops. Power lead had fallen out and the battery wasn't locked in so it slipped out. On reboot it says Boot Device Not Found Please install an operating system on your hard disk. Hard Disk (3F0) F2 System Diagnostics F2 gives me the option of; a memory test, which it passes. A hard drive check, which it fails. A language option, que bueno. Exit, which exits. Any ideas? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stumack Posted August 28, 2016 Report Share Posted August 28, 2016 only option might be if there's some hidden recovery partition. f11 when its booting should give you something. and is there really a product called a "sleekbook" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lroy Posted August 28, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2016 Is that what it's called? Jeez. It looked like it was going to do something, then just went back to the previous bad time message. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scooter Posted August 28, 2016 Report Share Posted August 28, 2016 A hard drive check 'fail' may indicate the drive is kaput but sometimes it's as simple as the hard drive connectors may have come loose. Have you tried reseating your hard drive? . Shut down PC and grab a tiny screw driver. Take off the HDD cover, unscrew all the screws mounting the hard drive then disconnect the drive completely. Blow any surrounding dust away then reconnect securely. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindes57 Posted October 1, 2016 Report Share Posted October 1, 2016 This could be something to do with uefi bootup You may have to fiddle with settings in your bios which is now replaced with uefi thingies 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scooter Posted October 11, 2016 Report Share Posted October 11, 2016 Is the PC still screwed? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lroy Posted October 12, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2016 It's very dead. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killie_cowboy Posted March 26, 2018 Report Share Posted March 26, 2018 Just buy a disk and product key off of ebay and reinstall it. Should wipe everything in the process anyway. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lroy Posted March 27, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2018 This laptop went in the bin a year and a half ago. But thanks. EDIT: Wrong laptop actually. I took the hard drive out and even older laptop that had other issues and swapped it in to this laptop. Works a treat now apart from I must have buggered the keyboard ribbon while I was changing it and now the r key isn't working. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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