When I boot up my laptop its says "No Bootable Device"

Haika
Haika Member Posts: 1 New User
edited November 2023 in 2020 Archives
I have an old acer cloudbook 14 that I decided to try to use today. I feel like I should mention that my laptop did have problems beforehand, where it was stuck in an automatic repair loop. I had to do some things to fix it. When I tried to boot it up afterwards, it only shows me a black screen that says "No Bootable Device". I've tried going into BIOS and changing to Legacy but I still have the same problem. Please help

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  • ailsa99
    ailsa99 Member Posts: 29 Enthusiast WiFi Icon
    edited November 2020
    No bootable device means you may encounter these situations:
    • Wrong boot order in BIOS.
    • System partition is not set as active.
    • Internal hard disk is corrupted due to disk errors/bad sectors.
    • Computer's boot hard disk MBR sector is damaged.
    • Corrupted System files.
    You could do the following to fix it:
    1. Remove and connect back all hardware components.
    2. Check boot order.
    3. Check internal hard disk status with the command: chkdsk c: /f /x /r
    4. Fix boot information (BCD and MBR) with the four commands: 

    • Bootrec /fixmbr

    • Bootrec /fixboot

    • Bootrec /scanos

    • Bootrec /rebuildbcd

    5. Reset primary partition as active: use your Windows installation disc to repair your computer, and enter Command Prompt to set the primary partition to active: 
    • lit disk
    • select disk 0: 0 is the disk number of the system hard disk.
    • list partition
    • select partition 1: 1 represents the number of your system partition.
    • active

    6. If you hard drive failed, restore Windows backup to new hard drive if you have a system backup, or just reinstalling Windows system and keep your files.

  • billsey
    billsey ACE Posts: 34,219 Trailblazer
    Changing to Legacy would break the boot for sure, since you aren't running Windows 7 or before. :) If the above suggestions don't help can you give us the full model number?  What size drive is in it?
    Click on "Like" if you find my answer useful or click on "Yes" if it answers your question.

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