Installing OS on HP 15-d017cl laptop.

[Kevin McCutcheon]

Hello all I have purchased a used laptop without the hard drive and just installed a fresh new hard drive and it is telling me.

I have the Windows 7 USB install stick and CD key next to me and changed the boot order in the BIOS to boot to USB but I cannot get past this screen?

Any tips?

Boot Device Not Found
Please install an operating system on your hard disk
Hard Disk (3F0)

F2 System Diagnostics

For more information, please visit; www.HP.com

 

[Wolfshadw]

What you can try and do is download the drivers from HP for your OS and attempt to slipstream them into your installation media. You should be able to use NTLite in order to get the drivers and/or updates into your installation media.

Otherwise, you would probably need to contact HP for the necessary install media (normally included on the hard drive) and typically at a cost.

-Wolf sends