Windows 10 recovery problem.

[alexulmiste]

Hi, i have a little problem. My dad accidently deleted some files from his laptop and now its not booting. Only blue recovery screen and says that boot file not found or something similar. I tried literally everything and nothing works. Im also learning IT and know the basics. Tried USB boot, but after i select boot from USB, it just throws me back to recovery blue screen. Tried even resetting BIOS, nothing helps. Is there even anything that i can do? Like i cant even reinstall windows from usb. I have no idea what could cause the problem.

SOME INFO:
Laptop: Compa Presario C57
My dad is okay with losing all his data/files.

 

[peterddamianov]

You should just wipe the hard drive. take it out of the laptop. There are just some screws and you will get to it. then you can plug it into another pc and use the create and format hard disk partition and delete the old partition. Then you can just put it back in the laptop and then you can reinstall windows from a usb.

 

[peterddamianov]

this is how you can take it out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qle1T_6ThKc

 

[reedo_43]

No need to take it out. download the windows 10 from microsoft as well as the media creation tool to make the flash drive bootable. And do a clean install.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGGNW6gxTm8

 

[bignastyid]

What did you use to create the bootable usb drive?

 

[alexulmiste]

What did you use to create the bootable usb drive?

I downloaded win 10 from official Microsoft page.

 

[alexulmiste]

No need to take it out. download the windows 10 from microsoft as well as the media creation tool to make the flash drive bootable. And do a clean install.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGGNW6gxTm8

Thats what i tried.

 

[reedo_43]

Did you watch the video?

 

[reedo_43]

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=56485

 

[bignastyid]

What did you use to create the bootable usb drive?

I downloaded win 10 from official Microsoft page.

Did you use the tool to create the usb drive or did you just download the ISO and copy it to a usb drive?

 

[alexulmiste]

What did you use to create the bootable usb drive?

I downloaded win 10 from official Microsoft page.

Did you use the tool to create the usb drive or did you just download the ISO and copy it to a usb drive?

I used the tool to create ISO, and then extracted ISO to my USB.

 

[reedo_43]

Use the tool.

 

[alexulmiste]

Use the tool.

Yeah thats what i did. I have all the windows files on my USB (Its not my first time im installing win from USB, as i said im learning IT and i know the basics, i have installed windows from USB so many times).

 

[reedo_43]

So what is the issue? You can't get it to boot from the stick?

 

[alexulmiste]

What did you use to create the bootable usb drive?

I downloaded win 10 from official Microsoft page.

Did you use the tool to create the usb drive or did you just download the ISO and copy it to a usb drive?

But ill try everything again tomorrow when im home. If nothing helps i will try to remove hard drive and format it using other pc.

 

[bignastyid]

What did you use to create the bootable usb drive?

I downloaded win 10 from official Microsoft page.

Did you use the tool to create the usb drive or did you just download the ISO and copy it to a usb drive?

I used the tool to create ISO, and then extracted ISO to my USB.

Extracting the ISO does not make a bootable drive. If you still have the ISO you can use Rufus or the Windows usb/dvd download tool.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=56485

 

[alexulmiste]

So what is the issue? You can't get it to boot from the stick?

Yep. As soon as i select boot from USB it just takes me back to the recovery screen saying that im missing boot file or something. And there is no options on that screen, i just can restart the pc.

 

[reedo_43]

You may have to go into bios and disable secure boot.