New hard drive can't get laptop to boot

[Bets36]

Laptop was messed up. Hard drive was bad. Got new hard drive and can't get to boot. Checked memory and hard drive all good now. Don't have a boot disk. 

[WAWood]

If your primary internal drive was the hard drive -- of course it will not boot now, because the drive is blank.

You will have to create a USB stick with the HP OEM version of Windows on it and use that to reinstall Windows on your hard drive.

If your PC is a 2016 model or newer, you should see if you can make a bootable USB recovery drive using the HP cloud recovery tool on a working PC.

The recovery drive can then be used to install Windows and the HP drivers and utilities that originally came with your PC.

You will need a working PC and a 32GB USB stick to hold the recovery files. Here is the link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmtXOU40vxk

You use the Microsoft Store to download the actual tool:

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9mtks9pr7r3n?rtc=1&hl=en-us&gl=us

Since you will be using a different PC to run the tool, you will have to provide your PC's product number. Here is an HP link for finding that information:

https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/ish_2039298-1862169-16

Here's a video from HP Support about using the Cloud Recovery Tool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7AwuKNJKS4