No OS detected after reset

[Bloody Spy]

Hi,

My brother got a used laptop from a friend as a gift, but he forgot the password, so we decided instead of going though the bother of asking the password again, we would just reset windows 10 and start anew.

So i went to wipe the old data (holding shift and pressing the reset button on the bottom right corner, troubleshooting, wipe data). It took a few hours, but the laptop got there in the end. BUT, as soon as it rebooted it just said there was no OS detected. So, i went to the bios to check if there was anything abnormal, everything seemed fine, but i reset it to default. Just to be safe.

Now it will just straight up go to the bios, no questions asked.

Did i just completely wipe the hard drive? Because i thought i was just factory reseting Windows... Or is this just an error? Help is needed. Thanks in advance.

[Bloody Spy]

Ps. If i go out of the bios, it says ">>checking media presence..." for a few seconds before returning to the bios screen.

[Streetguru]

3 minutes ago, Bloody Spy said:

 

Just make a windows 10 USB from microsoft's media creation tool and you can do a fresh install without a key.

[JoKeR-13]

23 minutes ago, Bloody Spy said:

Now it will just straight up go to the bios, no questions asked.

I had a laptop given to me that was doing the same thing. The reason it was happening on my laptop was because the hard drive had died, it was still seen in the BIOS but it didn't work anymore so it would just boot to the BIOS whenever I started the laptop.

[Bloody Spy]

7 hours ago, EMAGDNIM said:

I had a laptop given to me that was doing the same thing. The reason it was happening on my laptop was because the hard drive had died, it was still seen in the BIOS but it didn't work anymore so it would just boot to the BIOS whenever I started the laptop.

But did it just die as soon as i reset windows?

[Bloody Spy]

7 hours ago, Streetguru said:

Just make a windows 10 USB from microsoft's media creation tool and you can do a fresh install without a key.

Ok i'll give it a go

[Bloody Spy]

21 minutes ago, Bloody Spy said:

Ok i'll give it a go

Just used my other HDD on it, and it still says no media present...

[Bloody Spy]

Ok, so i solved one problem, i disabled secure boot and went from UEFI to legacy. Now it will boot on my other hdd, but the new one still has no OS.