fix hard drive

[mwinton]

Hello

I was wiping my hard drive on my Toshiba all in one and had a power outage for 2 seconds and screwed it
My question is when i press F2 and go through Bios it comes up with the pixie thing and says no bootable device how do i fix it or is it stuffed all together ???????
Bloody power companies

Thanks

 

[CountMike]

As soon as you start wiping a HDD it will not be able to be booted from. What you need is same OS you had on a bootable USB drive and start new installation from it. Same would happen even without power cut, you end up with an empty disk.

 

[smorizio]

if you did not wipe out the restore partion that on most of the newer laptops you should be able to hit a key at power up and reinstall the factory os. if not call the vendor for a small fee they send you a disk or let you download the iso for the laptop.

 

[mbarnes86]

Hi

We dont know what model of Toshiba or what version of Windows you have

If Windows 10 you can easily & legally download win 10 (lattest version) and put it onto a bootable USB or DVD
get Windows 10 media creation tool from Microsoft

Then goto Toshiba support website for specific device drivers

If you have Retail version of Win 7 or 8 you can also download a Windows iso file from Microsoft
(providing you can still find the key)

what software did you use to wipe the hard disk?

DBAN is the most popular for older PC's (secure boot UEFI setting blocks it from running)

regards
Mike Barnes