Recovery reason 0x42

[Daniel Østensen]

Like 3 days ago I tried to boot up my Samsung Chromebook XE500C21 and an error screen comes up saying:

Chrome OS missing or damaged

Please connect a recovery device.

http://google.com/chromeos/recovery

Model: SAMS ALEX EPSILON-US 45-07

Additionally if I hit tab it says

HWID: SAMS ALEX EPSILON-US 4507

Recovery Reason 0x02 

But earlier it said the following:

HWID: SAMS ALEX EPSILON-US 4507

Recovery Reason 0x42 

I've also installed the recovery OS on a 16GB empty memory stick(USB) on 2 different Windows 10 computers. And booted it with the OS on a memory stick in the computer.

What are my options here?

Is there something else I can try? 

Maybe its the hardware that's the problem?

[Mike Frysinger]

the first one:

    /* User manually requested recovery via recovery button */

    VB2_RECOVERY_RO_MANUAL = 0x02,

which implies you triggered it by pressing the recovery button (or the dev mode switch?).

the second one:

    /* No OS kernel detected */   

    VB2_RECOVERY_RW_NO_OS = 0x42,

that means it found the harddrive, but there's no recognized Chrome OS install.

so did you try inserting the USB stick w/a recovery image and recoverying the device ?

-mike

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