laptop won't boot

[ozthomas]

Hi everyone.  I have a mojor issue with my Envy touchsmart 15. It won't boot. Diagnostics show the memory and hard disk are OK. I have a windows 10 install on a USB but recovery does not let me boot from that media. I've tried booting direct from the usb stick but I just get the HP symbol and teh circle of death. I have downloaded the latest BIOS but am not given the option to flash.

It boots off a Linus mint distrib ona a usb stick! 

I've tried pwoering on with windows & B and windows and V held down. Windows B - nothing happens  Windows V gets me back to HP logo and then nothing.

I obvioulsy could stick with Linux        but it's my media PC and I have an application that is not available on Linux.

Any thoughts?  I'm at my wits end....

cheers

[WAWood]

@ozthomas 

Based on your comments, the Win10 boot media is faulty.  When you boot from that, you should not get the HP logo and circling dots -- doing so means your PC is not booting from that USB stick.

The fact you can boot from the Mint USB shows that booting from USB works.

[ozthomas]

Quick update  The original error was the blue screen 0xc000000e error.   But I couldn't boot into recovery mode.

Even more worrying, it no longer boots from the Linux media....   It's looking like a dead duck.

[ozthomas]

OK - I was mistaken - it is booting the Mint distrib.  I have tried 2 windows usb sticks but will try and buold another one.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Do you know if I can flash the Bios from Linux?

cheers