No hard drive fitted to laptop but still boots up on an operating system.

[carvan]

I've been having a few issues recently and noticed something. My laptop (Lenovo T430) wont work on certain hard drives that it used to and after some investigation I've found that even though there is NO hard drive connected it still boots up, shows the windows back ground, shows icons like recycle bin, Microsoft edge etc. When I checked the ''msinfo'' it shows up windows 11, bios mode UEFI etc. It doesn't show up all my apps but it certainly shows quite a lot of them. Why might this be? Could this be a reason for my laptop not accepting the other hard drives?Thanks.

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