OK, so I got a new Solid state drive that I wanted to use for my new laptop. I used the HP recovery manager to download a system image onto a USB (seeing as this laptop doesn't have an optical drive) and installed my SSD.
Now, I run the minimized system image recovery, it goes through the motions, does the initial 3 steps, reboots and then goes into the whole HP programs thing.
And then, when it's done, reboots again and sends me right back to the USB. For some reason, it never installs an OS. It doesn't work. I don't know what the problem is. I've done this 3 times and it doesn't work all three times. The last time, I pulled out the USB after the first reboot in the hopes that the computer would boot from the hard drive rather than the USB but no luck. In all three cases, it tells me that a boot device is not found and to install an OS onto my hard drive.
What the hell? Please help