Rebuilding laptop and need disk image as recovery partition not possible

[Goonerforlife]

Hi. My hard drive totally failed so had to replace with a new drive. Therefore have no recovery partition to rebuild from. Also this is not a new laptop (4+ years old) so struggling to see how I can do this. Normally, the recovery partition is easy to get to and just rebuild from there but not an option. I've also forgotten the BIOS password so a lot of faffing about. Any help would be appreciated

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

You won't be able to reinstall Windows unless you remember the BIOS password.

No one can help you with recovering/unlocking a BIOS password.

HP indicates that a motherboard replacement would be in order.

HP Business PCs - Forgotten or lost BIOS password | HP® Support

If you are ever able to get into the PC, you can use the HP cloud recovery client software to make a bootable USB recovery drive to reinstall Windows.

Here is an info link for how to use that utility:

HP Business PCs - Using the HP Cloud Recovery Client in Windows 11 and Windows 10 | HP® Support

You can download the software from your notebook's support page at the link below:

HP EliteBook 850 G3 Notebook PC Software and Driver Details