HELP apparently I have no OS and I dont know what to do

[Pricky_Pringles]

I said it has Windows 10 64bit because that’s what it used to have but apparently not anymore. Basically I had some software that was spoofing my Hardware id and it didn’t kept saying activate windows, so I deleted all the software and restarted and it wouldn’t go away. I tried a lot of other stuff to but nothing worked. Eventually I tried to reset it but I’d didn’t work it kept saying something went wrong and no changes were made. This is when I went into trouble shooting after it failed and I found HP Recovery manager and chose to do a reset kind of thing on there. I hit start and got error that said HP recovery manger failed. Error code = 0xEFFFFF23. I figured is was the same sorta thing and hit ok but now I get a black screen that says BOOT DEVICE NOT FOUND

PLEASE INSTALL AN OPERATING SYSTEM ON YOUR HARD DISC

HARD DISC - (3FO)

If anyone knows anything about how I can fix without buying another windows it would be a huge help, thanks.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

Depending on how old your notebook is, if it was made in 2016 or later, you can reinstall W10, the drivers and software that came with your PC by making a bootable recovery drive using the HP cloud recovery client utility.

Here is an info link for how to use that utility...

https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c06162205

Or you can make a bootable W10 USB installation flash drive using the Microsoft media creation tool at the link below to clean install W10.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

You will need access to another working Windows PC for either of these options.