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Solve : Persistent "No boot device available" message? |
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Answer» I got a used Dell XPS 600 from my brother. But on start-up it gave the "no boot device available" message. It turns out he removed both hard drives for another computer, and put in a laptop hard drive and told me everything was fine with the computer. I replaced the laptop hard drive with a 500G SATA drive, one that he had taken out before. Now, I have tried booting a Windows OS from a USB drive, a CD, even tried to clone a drive from a functioning computer. What Windows OS version were you trying to boot from USB. Other than BartPE, I am not aware of any that boot off of USB other than the system recovery bootable ISO that you can make into a bootable thumb drive, such as what both of my Toshiba laptops have available for a utility to create a bootable thumb drive set. Also what CD was it that didnt work out for you getting it to boot. As far as cloning a drive on one system and expecting it to work in a totally DIFFERENT computer, first of all if it did work, its illegal because you would have 2 systems running off the same Windows Key. 99% of the time you cant do this and get it to work without following up with a repair installation of windows, and this is usually done when you have personal data on a drive that wont boot because of a corrupt windows and are migrating the hard drive and operating system to a new computer. This also of which is not exactly kosher to the EULA, but if you keep the dead computer and have a now new healthy computer running the OS, one could argue that only 1 instance of the OS is running. The problem though is that Microsoft pretty much wants the keys that came with a computer to remain on that computer, and swapping a motherboard and keeping the same case they also frown upon, and if your calling in for an activation and they hear of this, 9 times out of 10 they will reject giving you an activation code as for they argue that the key is only for the case and all original hardware and the only changes can be memory expansion or larger hard drive installed. *They are doing this mainly because they want to put pressure on selling multiple licenses of the same OS to the same user, whereas this doesnt seem right if you already own a LEGAL licensed copy of that OS. But it is what it is! The Biggest issue you might be facing is the lack of a SATA Controller Driver. Some motherboards have SATA controllers that require you to make a slipstreamed OS disc with the SATA Controller Drivers preinstalled to the slipstream, so that when the OS tries to install, it automatically has the drivers it needs for the SATA controller and this way it can install the OS. The best test would be to try to get this system to boot to Linux, then try to install Linux, such as MINT 14.1 KDE from a burned DVD, but you would need a DVD-ROM available to do this with. If you are trying to get a DVD to boot from a CD ROM for example it wont work.I tried to boot from disks of Windows 98, XP, and Unbuntu, as well as Unbuntu from a thumb drive. The disk cloning was just to get the computer up and running, and install a new OS on it. I just tried booting from a burned DVD of Linux Mint 14.1 kde. It still insists there is no boot device.In BIOS boot order, is DVD ROM the first device in boot sequence prior to Hard Drive? You will want the hard drive to be the last device, and also make sure that the hard drive is in SATA port 0 or 1 and not 2 or 3.CD/DVD ROM is set to first, and SATA drive set to second (there are no floppy or IDE drives). Hard drive in sata port 0. Still no luck. Would it make a difference if I disconncted from "0" and put it onto "1"? Only other thing i can think of right now is if you had another SATA hard drive to try out on this.I would try another Optical drive... |
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