Brand new hard drive, “boot device not found, please install an OS”

[Hsinto]

As stated in the title, windows is telling me a boot device can’t be found, although this is a new hard drive and it’s been barely used. Prior to this, I was using my laptop when suddenly it froze and I couldn’t  use my cursor. Caps lock key didn’t work either. I force shut down, couldn’t boot back up, tried plugging in a recovery disk, boot to black screen, and now when I hit F9, I can’t even access the boot devices screen, it only gives me a black screen.

[WAWood]

@Hsinto 

When you say "brand new", do you mean blank?

If not blank, how did you install Windows to it so that you could use it?

[Hsinto]

I used a windows installation media to create windows, this was a hard drive replacement on my laptop.

[WAWood]

@Hsinto 

So you were booting OK from the new drive and using it? So, how long did it work OK until this problem started?

[Hsinto]

It’s been about a week and a half since I replaced the HDD, right now I’m running a check disk /r /x from the recovery environment in hopes of potentially fixing the issue.

[WAWood]

@Hsinto 

OK, understand -- but if the CHKDSK finds file system errors, that's not good news for a drive that is not even two weeks old!