Had a hard drive replaced - Feature byte not found in bios string!

[mike1755]

The hardrive on my HP 255 G3 failed so a replacement was installed using the same model of drive.

After installation the drive tested fine and so I ran a recovery file from a pen drive.

The screen came up resetting this PC but stops at 85%

It then goes to boot but comes up with "The system cannot find the batch label specified - END"

If I exit this I go into a Recovery Manager Screen which gives the message "Couldn't get FeatureByte from bios string..."

Reading previous posts it appears this is a security feature but why is this appearing on the same PC that the recovery drive was taken from in the first place and how do I correct this?

Thanks for any assistance.

[wes_notebooks]

Hey mike,

It doesn't sound like your recovery media matches your model.  Your system was built before featurebyte was implemented.  Try ordering replacement recovery media from HP.

-wes