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‎05-17-2021 08:26 AM

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Product: Hp Stream Laptop 14-axoo2na
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

I changed the format of my hard drive and now it cannot boot the OS, How can I reset it

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‎05-17-2021 09:46 AM

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@King_40 

I'm not sure we are talking about the same thing. 

 

The term "format" has a very specific meaning -- to recreate one or more filesystem partitions on a drive. This effectively removes the partition(s) formerly there and while it writes a filesystem to the drive, that is blank -- so the drive no longer has Windows on it and it no longer boots.

 

Is this what you did, or did you do something else?



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