The laptop fails to connect to the BIOS.
The laptop fails to connect to the BIOS.
I recently acquired a used PC (still under warranty) with one SSD and one HDD. The SSD health was flagged as warning, so I transferred the SSD to my laptop and the HDD to my desktop. Now I'm trying to reinstall Windows on my laptop, but I encountered some issues: initially, I received the error code 0xc0000225. After moving the HDD to my laptop, I noticed it was affecting performance. Now I only have the SSD in my laptop, but I'm seeing a message saying "checking media presence" and eventually it prompts me to reboot and select the correct boot devices or insert a bootable USB. I have a bootable USB, but I can't access the BIOS and set the boot device. Normally, I use F4 to enter BIOS, but it doesn't work. Once I reboot, the laptop freezes and won't respond. Could someone assist me with this? Thank you.
No, the UEFI/laptop did not have a prior Windows 8 installation.
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I appeared in the bios, restarted and a Windows boot manager emerged, now I'm reinstalling to Windows 8 using my CDs.