Hard drive help!

[civiliancactus]

Hi so I have a lenovo g780 and the hard drive died on me the other day. I got a new hard drive but for some reason when I enter the bios I cannot boot from usb or from cd/DVD drive. Any advice would be appreciated.

 

[Barty1884]

Is the new HDD detected?

You may need to enable "CSM" or "legacy" support to be able to boot from the USB.

There should be a prompt at post (F8, generally) to bring up a "one time" boot override menu, which is all you should need to boot from a USB/Disk to install your OS.

Which OS? If Windows 10, make sure you create a new bootable USB/Disk from here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/software-download/windows10

It'll be a 'newer' image, with updates etc. If you install from an older USB, you';ll then need to wait for Windows to install more updates.

 

[civiliancactus]

Is the new HDD detected?

You may need to enable "CSM" or "legacy" support to be able to boot from the USB.

There should be a prompt at post (F8, generally) to bring up a "one time" boot override menu, which is all you should need to boot from a USB/Disk to install your OS.

Which OS? If Windows 10, make sure you create a new bootable USB/Disk from here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/software-download/windows10

It'll be a 'newer' image, with updates etc. If you install from an older USB, you';ll then need to wait for Windows to install more updates.

 

[civiliancactus]

The new hard drive shows up. It is windows 10 and I've tried enabling legacy and the cd still does not show up on my list of boot options. I also tried f8 and the other f keys and nothing happened when I hit them.

 

[Barty1884]

Where did you acquire the W10 disk?

 

[civiliancactus]

Where did you acquire the W10 disk?

 

[civiliancactus]

I bought it a couple days ago from a local best buy when I also got the new hard drive