No operating system

[punkybunge]

I recently bought a very nice laptop, or so I thought. Now I'm not so sure. It's a Samsung laptop, it starts right up, and then it has a screen that says no operating system installed or partition corruption. Under that it says Press R to perform a full PC Recovery. He also gave me a Disc that has written on it Laptop Recovery DVD 1 of 3 . I clicked the R and it says it's preparing recovery partition. then it does that and goes onto the Recovery Disc and starts installing. But it only goes to 2 % and then stops. Any suggestions??

 

[lunarlander]

If it is still under warranty, then take it back to the store. The HD controller may be shot. Or it may be the HD.

 

[punkybunge]

No, I bought it used. Guess I wasted my money?

 

[lunarlander]

Hi,

Just go download MS Media Creation Tool. It will generate a Windows DVD or USB stick. Boot with that and do a Custom Install.

 

[punkybunge]

thank you! Sounds easy but if I have any trouble, I'll be back.

 

[crjdriver]

It is pretty easy however is there anything you need on the drive ie docs, videos, etc?

 

[punkybunge]

have never used it. I was not able to do anything on it. Okay, so I have theMedia Creation Tool on a DVD. And after the laptop gets charged, I am going to try and run it. well, it kicked out the dvd and is asking for the PC Recovery CD #1. I only have #1, don't know what happened to #2 or #3 Now it is running and has 2 folders up top and has papers going from one to the other.It says BASE_0001.inp from preload to preload and is at 1 % now and then it shuts off b4 it gets to 2 %

 

[punkybunge]

I can't get it to run. It will only got to 2% then it shuts down, so I don't know what to do. I went to HP recovery and read there and did what was said, turn it off, back on and hit escape key go bring up boot menu, I did that and a step then t went right back to the same screen telling me there was no operating system and to click r for a full recovery. back to shuts down at 2%

 

[lunarlander]

No, you run the Media Creation Tool from the PC. And slip a blank DVD in the DVD drive. MCT will write and create a Windows 10 disk.