Long story short, I accidentally deleted windows 8 and apparently my hard drive, or at least all its information. I've researched, tried rebooting it with no luck. When I turn the laptop on which is a HP 2000 notebook, the screen is black with lots of codes I don't understand except for it telling me there's "no bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key." I've tried a couple of boot disks I downloaded from the internet off my old laptop but that didn't work. I've tried hitting the esc button rapidly when turning it on and trying f10, f11, f9 and so on but again, no luck. Finally called HP and was told I would have to buy a new disk and install windows 8 again for $170.00. Is that the only option there is? Re-installation? That's fine but I can't afford $170.00. Also, if I re install the program will it work on the HP? I hope all that made sense. Thank you for any help/suggestions you can provide.
~Frustrated
~Frustrated