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Trollzarz
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Today I decided to do a fresh install of Windows 8.1 on my HP pavilion dv6-6b10tx. I took the hard drive out of my laptop and plugged it into another computer I had. I formatted the drive and then reinstalled Windows. Now that I have put it back into my laptop whenever I boot it says "No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key"

How can I fix this?

Thanks

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Hi

Today I decided to do a fresh install of Windows 8.1 on my HP pavilion dv6-6b10tx. I took the hard drive out of my laptop and plugged it into another computer I had. I formatted the drive and then reinstalled Windows. Now that I have put it back into my laptop whenever I boot it says "No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key"

How can I fix this?

Thanks

wait you install your OS using another computer?

 

aren't you suppose to install the OS with the HDD installed into your laptop?

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wait you install your OS using another computer?

aren't you suppose to install the OS with the HDD installed into your laptop?

Dunno lol but my laptop doesn't want to boot to USB and I don't have any dvd-rw

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Dunno lol but my laptop doesn't want to boot to USB and I don't have any dvd-rw

if you can go into BIOS set the first boot device to be USB device

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if you can go into BIOS set the first boot device to be USB device

I've done that and it still doesn't, I'm gonna reset the bios and try

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I would reformat the HDD in the first computer, then install it in the laptop and install windows there.
There are certain drivers that get loaded into windows for the hardware. If you go through the setup on a desktop, then take it to a laptop with different hardware it most likely won't boot.

 

Is there a disk drive on the laptop?

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