Installing windows on new SSD after hardware (3F0) error

[Paul_Tikkanen]

That's good news.

If for some reason, it didn't work and since your plain W10 installer did the same thing at the beginning , yank the USB flash drive at the first restart and see if the plain version of W10 installs and works normally without getting the boot drive failed error.

[Denz1]

Paul, many many thanks for your assistance.
Currently setting windows up, installing updates and appears to be working fine now.

Saved me hours of work you have, really appreciate it.
Have a desktop and everything, with new SSD.

Problem solved!

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

Glad to have been of assistance.

You can go to sleep tonight with one less worry.

[Denz1]

Hold the phone... 

After installing for hours, everything was running fine, windows 10, drivers, everything. I could even log online and visit websites.
Clicked on BIOS updates via the HP support website.
It told me the update was complete (from F5 to F5.2)
Went back to the HP updates website, telling me to update BIOS again, to F5.2 (the one I'd just installed)
Thought I would leave it as windows 10 updates were downloading.
Switched over to windows update to restart and install when it finished after two hours of downloading at high CPU "in the background"
Laptop went off then started up, now it's back at the original hardware error (3F0) and everything has gone.
It says there's no operating system on the boot drive (the new SSD I had working)

18 hours in now and I'm back to square one!
Microsoft needs a kick up the backside because clearly their newer windows 10 updates are making hardware non compatible and costing consumers money!

To say I'm a tad angry right now, would be an understatement of the year so far!
(I take it I now have to go through the whole recovery and updating process again from square one?)

[Denz1]

I now believe that when the old HDD was running, the computer went into sleep mode and was shutdown.
The windows 10 update was downloaded in the background, so that when the laptop was turned back on, it was now incompatible according to microsoft and the machine returned the hard drive error (3F0)

It is an utter disgrace that an operating computer company can make hardware obsolete with a single update and then charge computer manufacturers for licenses, everyone suffers bar microsoft.

Time this cowboy outfit, with a market monopoly, is investigated by the competition and markets authority, as they do not give one **bleep** about consumers and manufacturers alike.
Blatantly ripping people off and forcing them into making purchases that are not needed.

[Denz1]

I put in the USB key created from the HP recovery website, restarted and the windows 10 update is now trying to install?

Pulled out the USB key and it's running - until it restarts probably - so will post back  with a result.

[Denz1]

After 50 minutes of installing, three restarts each returned "No operating system on boot drive - hardware error (3F0)"

Each time I pressed F10 into BIOS, then F10 to save and exit.
The installation continued.

It has now fully installed the "update" with the new task manager.
I'm in two minds whether or not to let HP record all the files that are on the laptop for possible future recovery USB download, if this is the problems I've had?

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

Since I don't work for or represent HP, if you want to report the nightmare issues you have faced with the recovery drive created by the cloud recovery tool, I recommend you contact the HP executive team at the link below.

Executive Team: CEO email | HP® Official Site

I just hope that if you do, that they will look into the matter.