Laptop won't boot my hard drive
- Thread starter Cydan_X
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It is likely then that the installation went badly.
Try unplugging your hard drive (first completely powering off your PC of course) to see if it gives you the "No OS found" error/warning when you boot
If it does then you will likely need to do a full reinstall.
At this point though, you should be able to do a clean install of windows 10 instead of having to install windows 7 (or 8/8.1 whatever you have) AND then upgrade to 10. On a different computer you will need to download windows 10 and make bootable image to usb or cd http://betanews.com/2015/07/29/how-to-download-windows-10-and-create-your-own-installation-usb-flash-drive-or-dvd/
If you choose to do a clean install of win 10 then you will need to go to your OEM (either company that makes the computer or if custom build then company that made your motherboard) and download all the drivers for it.
Try unplugging your hard drive (first completely powering off your PC of course) to see if it gives you the "No OS found" error/warning when you boot
If it does then you will likely need to do a full reinstall.
At this point though, you should be able to do a clean install of windows 10 instead of having to install windows 7 (or 8/8.1 whatever you have) AND then upgrade to 10. On a different computer you will need to download windows 10 and make bootable image to usb or cd http://betanews.com/2015/07/29/how-to-download-windows-10-and-create-your-own-installation-usb-flash-drive-or-dvd/
If you choose to do a clean install of win 10 then you will need to go to your OEM (either company that makes the computer or if custom build then company that made your motherboard) and download all the drivers for it.
Computer does not just magically know which drive you want to boot from.
You need to figure out which key you hit at the bios splash screen to get a one-time boot menu and then select the flash drive.
If that does not work then you need to go into bios (with usb flash drive plugged in), select it as first "hard drive" in the hard disk group, save and restart.
You need to figure out which key you hit at the bios splash screen to get a one-time boot menu and then select the flash drive.
If that does not work then you need to go into bios (with usb flash drive plugged in), select it as first "hard drive" in the hard disk group, save and restart.
Did you use the tool to make a bootable usb drive, or did you just copy it to the drive? If you just copied it then it wont work.
Otherwise you must not be setting something wrong because if it will give you the No OS found error with no drive plugged in then it is trying to boot from a drive. Thus you just need to set it correctly to boot from USB drive. Some motherboards will only boot from USB drive if you have the usb drive selected in hard disk group, and hard disk group selected as first boot device.
On some older motherboards it does not have support for booting from usb 3.0 port, so you still have to use USB 2.0 port (3.0 = blue port, 2.0 = black)
Otherwise you must not be setting something wrong because if it will give you the No OS found error with no drive plugged in then it is trying to boot from a drive. Thus you just need to set it correctly to boot from USB drive. Some motherboards will only boot from USB drive if you have the usb drive selected in hard disk group, and hard disk group selected as first boot device.
On some older motherboards it does not have support for booting from usb 3.0 port, so you still have to use USB 2.0 port (3.0 = blue port, 2.0 = black)
Did you select USB in the boot menu, or in the hard drive group menu?
On many motherbaords doing the first one will not work. You have to select the USB device (it should say the name of the drive, not just usb 2.0 port) from the hard disk group menu THEN select hard disk from the regular boot menu.
From everything you have said you must be doing something wrong, either the USB is not bootable or your settings are not booting from it.
On many motherbaords doing the first one will not work. You have to select the USB device (it should say the name of the drive, not just usb 2.0 port) from the hard disk group menu THEN select hard disk from the regular boot menu.
From everything you have said you must be doing something wrong, either the USB is not bootable or your settings are not booting from it.
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