I can't get to the screens you have above. With the flash drive out I can go into bios or system diagnostics. With the flash drive installed it just flashes the screen between off completely and lit but blank. It won't even go to the bios screen.
My HP Pavilion with Windows 8 recently experienced a hard drive failure and I replaced it with a Samsung SSD. I have a usb drive with the recovery saved on it but I can't get the computer to boot from it. I have changed the BIOS boot order around trying to make it read but still nothing. The...