Tried to restore my laptop, says no bootable device

[Ellaurion]

I’m a complete PC noob, its telling me to insert boot disk, my laptop doesn’t have a disc drive.

Laptop got a virus that wouldn’t let me use my windows bar so I tried to factory reset it and now it says no bootable device. Any noob-friendly advice on how I can fix this?

[jmarket]

Hi @Ellaurion and welcome to PCHF

What Operating do you have? Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7?

[Ellaurion]

Laptop came with Win 7, updated to Win 10. Thank you for your quick reply

[jmarket]

It sounds like the Operating System (OS) got erased when you did a factory reset.

You’ll most likely need to re-install Windows 7 (or Windows 10 if you’re able to download a Windows 10 ISO image and install it to a USB drive). Since your computer doesn’t have a DVD/CD drive, a USB boot would be your only option.

If you have a spare computer, Microsoft has a creation tool that’ll help you with getting a USB boot device created. Simply go here and follow the instructions

[Ellaurion]

I will do this and see if it fixes the problem. Thank you!

[veeg]

Any updates for us?

[Ellaurion]

Sorry for the late reply.

Turns out my hard drive packed in. Got it replaced and W10 put back on it and it’s working fine. Thanks again