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formatted my new pc's hard drive no Os no BIOS :(((!!!!

anasdarkal

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i bought my new acer aspire e , but it had windows8 pre-installed , i took out the hard drive , plugged it in with my other laptop , formatted it and converted it to an mbr , i put it back , when i boot it says : no bootable device detected hit any key when i hit any key it desplays blank bios windows that says hit enter to choose an option

please help
 
You had an OS installed on the HDD. When you formatted it, the OS went away and it is telling you that there is no OS. What did you expect?

Install another OS.