HP Envy Laptop Recovery No bootable device -- Insert a boot disc and press any key

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hariganeshan

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Hi



Recently my laptop stopping booting. I am getting the "no bootable device. Insert disc and press any key to continue" msg on my laptop everytime i start



I checked HP support and was told to try F11 to go to recovery option. But when i press that nothing happens and the same error msg is displayed again.



As a last resort i ordered the recovery discs from HP support online.



Today i tried copying the first of the 3 disc to a USB drive and tried booting my machin from USB drive (my laptop doesnt have a disc drive).



The windows starts and i see the recovery manager screen. But there is no option to do a File Back up before starting the recovery. The only option i get is to do a factory reset which will reformat my hardrive.



I dont want to do that as i dont want to lose my data. I want to back up my data first before doing factory reset. But i dont see that option at all.



Can anybody help why this option is not available for me.
 
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penguintech
Remove the hard drive from the laptop, use a data transfer cable to backup data onto a working computer/ laptop. Reinstall the hard drive, run the Windows install, once you have windows reinstalled, use a thumb drive or a external hard drive, transfer the data from the one you backed up to onto the external drive. Plug the external drive into your laptop and transfer the data to the laptop. You will only be able to save Data files, photos, documents, music, videos, etc... you can not transfer programs that were installed i.e. Microsoft Office
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Remove the hard drive from the laptop, use a data transfer cable to backup data onto a working computer/ laptop. Reinstall the hard drive, run the Windows install, once you have windows reinstalled, use a thumb drive or a external hard drive, transfer the data from the one you backed up to onto the external drive. Plug the external drive into your laptop and transfer the data to the laptop. You will only be able to save Data files, photos, documents, music, videos, etc... you can not transfer programs that were installed i.e. Microsoft Office
 
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hariganeshan

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Thanks a lot for your response. I bought a SATA to USB cable and tried connecting my harddrive to another laptop
and it recognised. But some folders were corrupted.

So i ran chkdsk utility on the drive and it took like 8 hrs or so but finally it fixed and i was able to acess all data and take back to an external drive.

Now another problem:

. i put my HDD back to my laptop and ran the HP recovery disk to do factory reset. The software confirmed that it formatted the hard drive.Now when i booted my laptop i got the BOOTMGR file missing error. Which is understandable as the OS is removed as a result of formatting. So i inserted my windows 7 installer and thats where i got a new problem.
A. It is throwing an error to install drivers for HDD as it is not recognising any drivers. i downloaded intel drivers and installed it but still same error. How do i address this.
B. My hard drive is showing an available space of 30MB. the original size is 320 GB. how did the capacity reduced like this after formatting. How do i fix this?
 
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