Hey guys. I'm stumped here.
Reviving a laptop from the dead (nearly literally. replaced CPU, fan and heatsink, screen, front and back bezel). Finally got it to boot with the old HDD that came with it. It would boot, then next restart/cold boot, it would go to recovery. Refreshing did not work, as it reverts back to recovery on next boot. (Windows 8, upgraded to 8.1) Resetting yields same result as first boot, one good startup, then reverts to recovery.
Did a sector scan on a separate computer of the HDD, it never finished, saying disk cannot be read. So I find my recovery media that came with the laptop (I see no CD key anywhere, I assume the BIOS takes care of authenticating Windows) and slap in a used but working 500GB WD Blue. Next bootup, no bootable devices found. I inserted the first disk of "Recovery" into the laptop. Again, no devices found. Check BIOS to ensure the drive is being detected, it is. CD-ROM is also being detected, so the hardware controllers are working (I think). Decide to re-seat the HDD, again, BIOS picks it up, but still pops up with "No Bootable devices found".
I am now stumped. Going for a smoke.
Reviving a laptop from the dead (nearly literally. replaced CPU, fan and heatsink, screen, front and back bezel). Finally got it to boot with the old HDD that came with it. It would boot, then next restart/cold boot, it would go to recovery. Refreshing did not work, as it reverts back to recovery on next boot. (Windows 8, upgraded to 8.1) Resetting yields same result as first boot, one good startup, then reverts to recovery.
Did a sector scan on a separate computer of the HDD, it never finished, saying disk cannot be read. So I find my recovery media that came with the laptop (I see no CD key anywhere, I assume the BIOS takes care of authenticating Windows) and slap in a used but working 500GB WD Blue. Next bootup, no bootable devices found. I inserted the first disk of "Recovery" into the laptop. Again, no devices found. Check BIOS to ensure the drive is being detected, it is. CD-ROM is also being detected, so the hardware controllers are working (I think). Decide to re-seat the HDD, again, BIOS picks it up, but still pops up with "No Bootable devices found".
I am now stumped. Going for a smoke.
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