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I had a drive that was asking for a bitlocker recovery key. I went to the link below and ended up using the CMD Delete partition override to delete all of the partitions, including system, recovery, and reserved. How to format a drive encrypted with Bitlocker?

I thought it would be fine since I was going to reinstall windows using a boot usb, but now the drive isn't showing up during the installation process. I can't go back to the CMD troubleshooting unless the boot usb is plugged in. When I use diskpart, list disk, it only lists the usb and not the old drive.

If I boot without the usb, I get a page that says boot device bit found. Hard disk (3F0), and an option to go to Sys Diagnostics by pressing F2. I've done a quick and extensive check on all harddrives, but it has passed them both. I think it is still detecting the original drive since it lists 2 NVMe drives. One is 512 and the other is 29gb.

I installed aoemei partition assistant, created a bootable USB, plugged that into the laptop, but only the windows bootable USB is showing up.

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    Do you have CSM enabled or disabled?
    – Ramhound
    Aug 7, 2021 at 0:32
  • I don't see CSM anywhere in BIOS.
    – user1482868
    Aug 7, 2021 at 1:33
  • I forgot to mention this, but this is an HP laptop
    – user1482868
    Aug 7, 2021 at 2:02
  • Perhaps it's an issue with the TPM if it's got one, if so, see if you can wipe it in the BIOS/UEFI. You could try booting from a Linux disk, and see if that sees the disk, then use dd to wipe it.
    – Bib
    Aug 7, 2021 at 9:55
  • I cleared TPM but that didn't seem to fix anything. I will try booting from a linux disk later, but I just wanted to mention that I can't open BIOS without the bootable USB for windows. I don't know if that's a problem.
    – user1482868
    Aug 7, 2021 at 19:37

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