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Title says all. Like 2 or 3 days ago my PC was working fine. I checked almost every forum to find a solution etc, and even went into my Bios etc to see if I can fix something from following YouTube tutorials. Even got Window Media Tool on the flash drive. Will refuse to let me repair Windows at all. I can see Windows on the Hard Drive. PC literally defects my SSD. Says it's there. But not there. If that makes sense. Windows Media Tool says I do have Windows installed. I tried to do a fresh install to see if it'll help. I can't even do that. Apparently I'm missing some drivers apparently. I didn't even download viruses or anything to make my PC act up. All I did was woke up one morning around 5am. PC was on like normal. Steam was on etc. Etc. I just bought Sonic Frontiers and Sonic Shadow Generations. Was having a blast et the night before etc. Then went back to bed in the morning. Next thing PC was giving me the hellish (3F0) error message. Etc. I even checked to see if my Sata cables were loose like some people mentioned. They weren't. Everything was tight and plugged in. I even unplugged it and plug it back in to be safe

It was stuck on the loop before. Idk what the bios did to make the loop stop working. So this driving me crazy. I don't know what to do. I'm not paying a guy $300.00 and $200.00 more and for some parts just to fix it because I can't afford it. I tried EVERYTHING. Even cleaning the SSD in command prompt etc. Unless there is a way to bypass the Windows 10 Media Tool to force Windows to repair everything like a command prompt or something I don't know about etc. Now it's asking me for some drivers on the installation tool. I can't do a recovery etc. Either Windows updated on its own when I was sleeping and corrupt some files etc or I don't know. I can't afford a new PC. Let a new SSD. 😞 I did the Legacy method too. Boot Windows from Legacy via USB to access the Tool. Idk what else to do. About to break my machine. No video helped at all. 😞 I feel like I'm locked out of my own PC from accessing Windows because I do see the Windows folder inside the Windows explorer when it tells me to search for drivers when I browse through folders etc. I see boot and such etc and Windows32 folder etc etc. Hope someone can find me a solution so I can get back to gaming. Thanks. 😞 And diagnostics said everything passed components everything. Except the hard drive even tho it shows it's there on Bios Boot. Weird. 😞 I even checked the HP forums too. Help please lol. 😞 Ty. 🙂 Been at it for 3 days now. 😞 I've seen others fixed theirs but for some reason it hates me. 😞 😞

 

HP Z2 G4 Tower Workstation Desktop
PC Specs i7 8700k
Hard Drive. SSD 1TB
OS: Windows 10 64bit.

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reinstall the OS, from the HP "cloud recovery" website you can select windows 10 restore image and then do a win 10 to win 11 update as this system meets the MS hardware requirements for installing windows 11 the win 10 to 11 update will reuse your existing win 10 license

 

the recovery will require a working computer to download the restore image to

and it will also need a 16Gb or larger USB key for the image to be written to

 

https://support.hp.com/za-en/document/ish_4511095-4511141-16

 

https://ftp.hp.com/pub/caps-softpaq/CloudRecovery/crsupportedplatform.html

 

 

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