HP 3F0 ERROR help

[XaMZA]

I bought an HP 650 two weeks ago and installed Linux alongside the existing Windows 8 installation. That all went well until I tried to boot into Windows again when the PC told me:

Boot Device Not Found

Please install an operating system on your hard disk.

Hard Disk (3F0)

Please Help!!

[mabkhan]

you are absolutely right buddy .. this is **bleep** .. i bought Envy 4 in october 2013 and with in a year it get stucked. its hard drive is malfuctioning. HP is assembling faulty Hard drives to their laptops. i am network admin in my university and i will now never recomend hp laptops to anyone.

[ozalhacizade]

posle perezagruzka ne kluaetca

[Scaniapower]

Det har oppstått harddisk feil

[Basharalmasri]

Hi, I have the same problem , will you able to find a solution

[Bersonlawangen]

this happen when the the gpt format is converted to mrb format or the otherwise but the newest format for harddisk nowadays are GPT format especially when then laptop is Windows 8 and u want it to be windows 7 or other Operating system. Ofcourse the technician will format it for profit so the gpt will be converted to mbr to install new operating system to the laptop, BUT/AND now it causes the error saying hardisk not detected kinda like that or the 3FO error because again the GPT is supported by the UEFI while MBR is for legacy

Remember:

1. GPT format is supported by UEFI (Windows 8 only i dunno for windows 8.1)

2. MBR Format is supported by Legacy (all other kind of Operating system)

After the format and installation of the new Operating system is done, the error starts...

well this is what i did to mine after Installing new OS --> restart the pc --> error will occur saying no Operating system installed just do the following

steps:

1. go to bios (press esc after you just turn on the pc/laptop/netbook.

2. f10 or etc just go to bios

3. go to boot option and enable the legacy format.

4. press f10 to save then exit.

5. at startboot, message will appear for another error

Operating system BOot mode change

1345 + ENTER - to Complete Change <<<<----- that is the code u will type soon my friend (i mean it just type those)

esc - continue without change <<<--- for this one i know u always press the esc, after it the next restart the error will be all the same again the 3F0 error o_0ccur. i guess u need to do again the steps

GOOD LUCK, i already solved this last year ago but no one tried it they are just mummbling and not reading and understanding what did i wrote ^^

so i guess this helped, more question email me personaly bersonlawangen@gmail.com if i didnt replied im not online ^^

[chikkiarce]

hello frds,

i hope it may help u guys,

earlier i tried to install mac osx maverisk from the virtual machine method but before that i made a bootable usb having mac oxs made for amd who's minimum requiremnts were unfullfilled thats y my notebook 15 series having 4gb ram 1gb radeon graphics showed me this hardware is not compitable with this os.  😞

after rebooting all i m getting is error 3f0 saying no boot device found. and did lots of struggles coz just updated to 8.1 windows from windows 8 and any kind of recovery is unable to do anything against this error,i read forrum supports nothing found but successfully solved by trying with bios settings there is a bios setting having a option in advanced that virtualization mode and but needs strong permission having warnings too that it will disable secure boot ...so i suggest and have did the changes in the boot keys under that settings and made it to reset to factory mode that is the hp default os keys along making bios settings to default by f9 key and it worked saved my pc.... forgot to mention the recovery drive option but it left me saying the key u entered is wrong .....it was my last step to get rid of...

but its my suggestion dont know what u have exactly did please check for forrums and rest for own risk any data might get lost take suggestions as ur last step than should go for srvice center finally .....

thank u guys for ur experiments....

[STeve_Su]

Greetings,

Well - this reaper came to get me as well...

BUT the shame of it all is about the ONLY solution to most of the comments is a statement

from HP staff to "just replace the HD" - AND this is a pretty **bleep**ty answer or solution

based on the fact the Notebook is ONLY a year old.  I'm guessing HP selected this crummy

Toshiba HD MQ01ABF032  - 320 Gb,  for the Notebook 2000 and had no idea of it's poor quality. 

I have no idea - BUT this HD has to have more then a year warranty - WHY isn't any HP Staff commenting

on warranty support about that fact?

Thanks,

Respectfully,

STeve

[tinnguyen]

Thanks so much. You saved my life. Really didn't expect that would work.

[Dorkatron199]

@Cyclops

Hello Cyclops,

I just wanted to thank you. Your solution worked. I had a similar issue on an HP Pavilion p2-1030w (a desktop) and tried your solution. When the computer rebooted, it rebooted quite loudly and gave a display saying "Press any key to load an OS from a CD or USB...", then moved on after waiting for a few seconds. I just wanted to let you, and anyone else who may be reading, have some feedback.

From Linux forums, I've learned to read comments on advise before taking the advise and learned to value replys, so I thought I'd return the favor as best I can. There are other suggestions here that I saw, but this one is the easiest and it worked for me. I would try this first then, then try resetting the hard drive, as you suggested, then I'd look into trying to read the hard drive on a different computer, as Mumbodog suggests. All of this based on what I've read on the forum

Thank you for your advise!