Hp pc pavilion start up issues

[dajana1]

So I’ve been having trouble with this computer for a few bloody years and yesterday I finalllyyyy did a clean reset after god knows how much effort and time, it was working fine all night till I turned it on this morning

It will not stop showing that a boot device was not found which might be because I used the USB windows trick to reset it? And I set the bios startup to the usb and not the actual device, but anyway I did a few diagnostic tests like I did yesterday and everything passed, the only way to turn on my computer is when I start up holding F6, but the second I turn it off and on again without holding F6 that boot device was not found screen comes up

How to I get rid of this, I legit can’t see another Bios screen pop up or hardware diagnostic pop up otherwise I’m going to smash this thing haha

[TheOldMan]

That sounds very much as though the install didn't finish properly and the bootloader is not looking at the hard drive but the USB where the install is.

I should ask - what is on the USB stick? I would make a new USB with install media from Microsoft.  Since the Windows version is not mentioned here is a download source with either Windows 10 or Windows 11

If you need the install media for Windows 10 or Windows 11, you can make it from this Microsoft download

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/create-installation-media-for-windows-99a58364-8c02-206f...

Pick the Windows version you need and follow the directions to make the media using a working PC.
You can make either the DVD or USB. Use this new media to install Windows 10 or 11, whichever you choose.

Boot this problem PC to the new Windows media and the pick "Repair this PC"  See if you can get the bootloader repair to place the install on the proper location or just do a new clean install.  Wait until it has completed and tells you it is done.