Laptop bricked itself when restarting to fix issue, now I can't restore

[Grima]

Last night I turned on my laptop, but I couldn't hear anything. Windows decided to "troubleshoot" this and said this required a restart. I restarted because my force drive was ready to update too, so I said "alright, why not?"

It was stuck on a "Preparing Automatic Repair" screen for quite a while, and I even pressed ESC 3 times to go to a troubleshooting menu, so I could just skip this process and go straight back to windows 10, however it sent me right back to the preparing screen again time after time. Eventually a recovery manager screen has been reached, because I figured something awful just happened, and with no other options of backing up my stuff(I am not a very smart man and did not see this coming) I went for a factory reset.

I let it do this overnight, and now I am stuck at the recovery manager saying "Restoration Incomplete"  with cmd.exe saying "Could not find the drive specified."

Details say:

"Windows has detected critical error and has triggered ErrorHandler.cmd

Possible cause(s):

-got critical error during Specialize-Pass.

check [C:\windows\panther\setupact.log] for this case

-got critical error during Audit-Pass.

check [C:\windows\panther\unattendGC\setupact.log] for this case

-got critical error during SysPrep.

check [C:\windows\System32\sysprep\panther\setupact.log] for this case."

Can ANYONE help me? I'm stumped and I'm not even sure if my warranty is still active to cover this...

[KrazyToad]

@Grima

I have gone through your Post and I would like to help

I suggest you run a Hard drive test to confirm the Hardware Functionality

- Hold the power button for at least five seconds to turn off the Notebook.
- Turn on the computer and immediately press Esc repeatedly, about once every second. 
- When the menu appears, press the F2 key.
- On the main menu, click Component Tests and Hard drive

If all the Test pass, then you will need the Recovery Media to perform a complete System Recovery.

If the Test fails you will need to replace the Hard drive

You can contact HP Support for Service Options

Click on this link - www.hp.com/contacthp/ and select your Country to get the Contact details for HP Support

Thank you😊

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