Windows Help with hp laptop recovery

Hi i'm trying to help a friend out with there laptop but not getting to far there running windows 8 and 'im getting the unmountable boot volume error when booting up then it just gets stuck on auto repair and they don't have a recovery disk or key as i think it's embedded in the bios

it won't let get into f11 or safe mode and I've tried to boot from a copy of windows 8 with no luck and not sure what else to do

Any help would be cool

 

You're going to have to download the Windows 8 .ISO and reinstall.

You will need to enter the BIOS and disable all of the secure boot features. Once they're all disabled, you will be able to boot from a memory stick or a DVD and you will be able to reinstall.

Once it has reinstalled, simply turn secure boot and everything else back on, and it'll insert the key for you automatically. It's a neat feature.

You can also extract the key from the BIOS with some software, even after you've reinstalled. Don't worry about losing the key.

 

I did turn the secure boot off maybe i missed something i will have another look in the morning

Thanks

 

It's a right pain. It took me a few attempts to get my brothers laptop to finally boot from a memory stick too. You'll get there.

 

You could try holding down 0 while you power on - on some HP machines this resets to factory image.

 

I've had a nightmare lately with this, if you have an ISO you should be able to uefi boot windows 8, which shouldn't require any further changes.

Also some laptops have a button now to access the BIOS, it is well hidden and looks like a mic hole. On my lenovo it is on the left hand side next to the headphone jack.

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