HP Laptop issues help please

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So I have an HP Laptop and booted it up ( not had it on for about 1 week and get this on screen

Boot Device Not Found

Please Install an operating system on your hard disk.

Hard Disk - (3FO).

tried to " Fix PC " but no good ( said no device found).

Had no issues with the lappy at all until today.

anyone have any ideas on what the issue might be please ?

thanks .
 
Steveocee said:
Sounds like it isn’t seeing the HDD. Can you see it in BIOS?
Check the boot order in case it’s wiped it somehow.
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Well the lappy is set to boot from the CD drive as I put a new windows on about 4 months ago, and as I said it's all been good, does this mean I should go and set the HDD as the boot drive ?...as it was out of the box ?
 
foster grant said:
Well the lappy is set to boot from the CD drive as I put a new windows on about 4 months ago, and as I said it's all been good, does this mean I should go and set the HDD as the boot drive ?...as it was out of the box ?
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It means, if you haven’t already, check the boot order. I did an upgrade recently and it completely blanked my boot order.

It’s a long shot as it’s most likely the HDD has failed.
 
Steveocee said:
It means, if you haven’t already, check the boot order. I did an upgrade recently and it completely blanked my boot order.

It’s a long shot as it’s most likely the HDD has failed.
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OK so I have put ( again) windows 10 on and it seems ok, I wonder if its worth replacing the HDD with an SSD ?...id the HDD is starting to fail ?
 
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