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No Boot Devices
Name: Nixon5050 Date: November 8, 2006 at 15:17:14 Pacific OS: Windows XP Home SP2 CPU/Ram: 512 MB Product: Dell Inspiron 600M
Comment:
The issue that I am having is this.
I recieve No Boot Devices when I try to boot my laptop up.. I have tried a few things to work this out but nothing has worked so far... this laptop has no A:\ or Floopy Drive so I can not use a boot disk, I have checked Boot.Ini, I have tried looking in the Bios for Boot Order.. I do not see anything about Auto Detect in the Bios or anything.. if that is what I need to do can anyone tell me how to find it? The Bios is A17... Can anyone help me? Thanks in advanced.
Name: dosser Date: November 8, 2006 at 15:29:06 Pacific
Reply:
If you can not boot from hard drive or CDROM then would presume the Controller Chip is US!
If you can buy a Laptop to IDE adaptor you can put the laptop hard drive in a PC to test that the hard drive itself has not self destructed.
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Response Number 2
Name: Nixon5050 Date: November 8, 2006 at 19:06:31 Pacific
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The drive boots up just fine if booted internally(F12) But that is the only way and even then it tends to cut off from time to time and I end up losing Data that I saved last. I can boot from the hard drive and get up to windows and everything but it tells me that there are no boot devices when I boot up but I can go in internally through F12 and it loads ok.
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