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02-11-2018 12:50 PM
That blink code indicates a memory issue.
How did you reinstall Windows exactly?
If you open disk Management, you will see there was most likely a partition created on the HDD near 250 GB and thats what the OS was installed on. Is the other space on the HDD available as a different drive letter or is it showing as unallocated? If you used the HP USB Recovery drive method to reinstall to the HDD, it probably recreated the OS drive exactly as it was on the SSD, leaving the rest of the space unallocated. That space would have to be formatted and given a drive letter to be usable.
Did you try reinstalling onto the SSD first to see if it would work?
02-11-2018 01:01 PM
well i used a usb to intall the windows, it didnt let me repair the windows so dieced to install a differnt copy on the hard drive. the windows copy on the ssd still does show up. i have done the dignostic test on the harddrive and it came out as percetly find, i am currenly running the test on the hard drive.
my orginal plan was to instlall the windows on the hard drve and see if it works, i actually planned to delete everything and install a fresh copy of windows on the ssd, but after this instlal if i plug the usb in and try to boot it from there an error pops up saying
"A media device your computer is missing. This could be a CD, USB or Hard disk driver, if you have a cd or a usb with the driver please insert it
Note if the if the installationmedia for the windows is on the USB or a CD you can safly remove it now"
02-11-2018 01:13 PM
I was asking if you used the HP recovery USB you maybe created or installer from Media Creation Tool?
I dont know what you have done at this point.
The Bios needs to be reset to default, then use the USB installer to install to the SSD.
Will it do that? You cannot have two operating systems on the laptop. It will give errors.
IF you are using the USB installer made from the Microsoft Media Creation Tool, do a custom install and wipe both the SSD and HDD first. Then install to the SSD.
IF you are using the HP Recovery USB, you may have to disconnect the HDD first.
02-11-2018 01:20 PM
ahhahaha, i had the same feeling to be honest,
and i didnt have a HP recovery USB so i downloaded windows from Media Creation Tool, i than told the bios to boot from the hard drive instead of the usb, i did that just beacuse i wanted to see if a fresh copy of windows will help the laptop boot up.
which it did, my plan was to wipe everything and install a fresh copy of windows if the laptop would boot up, but if i try to boot from the usb it gives me this error that the media is missing
should i try and download windows again to the usb ???
02-11-2018 01:39 PM
INstall the Media Creation Tool onto another computer and then run it. Let it create the USB installer.
IF you are using another tool like Rufus, you might not be creating it in the correct mode, thus UEFI mode will not recognize the USB bootable drive.