boot device not found please install an operating system on your hard disk 3f0

[trizzyyt]

EDIT SOLVED:

If anyone else has issues, download a OS ISO then get Rufus bootable usb, once installed, open, click the iso button on bottom right then select the OS ISO you downloaded. Then wait.. took me 15min.

Next turn pc on, press F10, go across to and enable legacy and then go to the bottom where the legacy settings are and put USB at the top (using f6 to move it up).

Stick USB in, and Boom! its done.

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Hello,

I have a Windows 8 HP Pavilion G6-2399sa , which sudenly started to say "boot device not found please install an operating system on your hard disk 3f0".

I did the hard drive checks and the hard drive passed, i also opened up the laptop and cleaned the cable (just incase) and the same issue.

Next i made a Bootable Windows 8 disk, and nothing happend it did not boot, i even click F10 to change the startup to CD.USB. ( so it would boot from the CD before the hard drive) But no this did not work either.

Now next ive tried this "legacy mode" but when i booted it up again it keeps saying "Press esp key for start up menu" then goes to a black screen and reboots and does the same process again, as though it was stuck in a loop.

I can change this back, but im back to where i started. Does anyone have any other suggestions on what i can do, i need my laptop very badly for my university, and have no cash to take it anywhere for them to fix.

 

[terry4536]

That error means that windows can't find the operating system. Go into the BIOS and check the drive boot priority. The drive with your operating system should be at the top of that list (usually C: ).

 

[trizzyyt]

That error means that windows can't find the operating system. Go into the BIOS and check the drive boot priority. The drive with your operating system should be at the top of that list (usually C: ).

Already tried that, thats why i tried doing it through a recovery disk, by moving the boot priority to CD/USB

 

[Crixilian]

windows 8 disk can be boot?

if it can't, try reset CMOS

 

[trizzyyt]

windows 8 disk can be boot?

if it can't, try reset CMOS

The Disk did not boot at all, i even tried a windows 7 disk but nothing.

and do u mean take it out and put it back in?

 

[terry4536]

But did you reset the boot order to the drive with your operating system?

The alternative is to reinstall the operating system.

 

[trizzyyt]

But did you reset the boot order to the drive with your operating system?

The alternative is to reinstall the operating system.

i tried to but there is no operating system there.
Also it will not let me boot the disk i have :S

 

[terry4536]

Then remove all other drives (or unplug them) other than the drive that you intend install the operating system on. Then do a fresh install of the operating system from your disk.

 

[trizzyyt]

windows 8 disk can be boot?

if it can't, try reset CMOS

just undone it all to try that, and same issue.

 

[trizzyyt]

Then remove all other drives (or unplug them) other than the drive that you intend install the operating system on. Then do a fresh install of the operating system from your disk.

theres only one harddrive attached and ive tried to boot from disk many times now and it will not boot from the disk, not sure why

 

[trizzyyt]

guess il try make a USB bootable one and see if i have any luck then

 

[trizzyyt]

Solved!

If anyone else has issues, download a OS ISO then get Rufus bootable usb, once installed, open, click the iso button on bottom right then select the OS ISO you downloaded. Then wait.. took me 15min.

Next turn pc on, press F10, go across to and enable legacy and then go to the bottom where the legacy settings are and put USB at the top (using f6 to move it up).

Stick USB in, and Boom! its done.

 

[Computer Boy]

Didn't work for me. They said can't detect operating system