hard drive

[noclue87]

i had to install a new hard drive and now i cant get my windows back.  everything i do it just comes back no bootable disk no disc insurt dics. DISC DISC DISC!!!!!! i dont have a **bleep** disc drive so i cant put my bootable disc in with the OS i only have the recovery on a **bleep** USB, or how do i get it back on my new hard drive from the bios i keep reading about anyone please help!!!!!

[Lil_Boy_Blue]

Hi

Errrr are you saying you do not have a Recovery/Rebuild/Repair/Re-Install disk?

You did not make one when the PC was new?

OR you cannot configure the BIOS to boot from the media you have via F9 or equivalent?

As I live in the UK we seem to have a Language Barrier. Like constructing cohesive sentences.

So for Windows 8.X, you can try and make your own DVD/USB if you so choose.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows8iso

[noclue87]

sorry, yes i have the USB recovery/installation for windows 8.1.  I know it works because i can start the download on the computer i am on right now, I cannot get my other laptop which is a hp pavilion 15 to reconize the USB for some reason.  I knonw the ports work as well because one min it wont even show up and then i plug it in and its there again, when i go to f9 and pick the usb it goes to the black screen and says no bootable disc. or the error 37o i think that there is no disk i need to download OS to my hard disc.  LIke i said before this is a new hard disck my old one crashed.  i know its beign read because i did the extinsive hard drive diagnostics under f2 and everything past. 

[Lil_Boy_Blue]

Are you absolutely certain you have made the W8.x I linked to?

Not using a n other?

Because the mention of a download is completely at odds with booting from a DVD/USB.

[noclue87]

Yes I can get The usb  to start the windows 8.1 install on my other laptop without any problems 

[Lil_Boy_Blue]

So now describe the sequence and problem with the 'faulty' one please.

[noclue87]

I actually ended up getting it had to use Rufus instead if microsofts recovery install tool and some work to the Bios to get everything on the same page but i am on the one i have beeen fighting with right now

[Lil_Boy_Blue]

Hi

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@noclue87 wrote:

I actually ended up getting it had to use Rufus instead if microsofts recovery install tool and some work to the Bios to get everything on the same page but i am on the one i have beeen fighting with right now

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So it is fixed?

[noclue87]

yes itis working just fine trying to get everything fully set backup

[Lil_Boy_Blue]

Prego.