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No bootable device - even after fresh windows 7 install!
Hi guys, I'm new to this forum so hope I'm posting this problem in the correct place. I have a friends HP pavilion g6 (not sure of exact model). On turning it on I get the following error 'No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key' I've tried a few things to fix this issue.
The hard drive when put in an external caddy and plugged into another computer seems to be working fine and contains all the correct files as far as I can see.
I went into bios setup and changed the boot order to boot from cd, windows cd booted up fine and installed windows 7, during the install I repartitioned and formatted the HDD. I was able to restart the laptop many times during this process with no issues and windows seemed to be working. However when I turned the laptop off the original error appeared when it was turned back on. I found a way of getting around this by accident and found that when I went into the bios setup and then exited it the laptop would then boot into windows. In fact booting from cd also only seems to work only after doing this.
Next I booted from a partition wizard bootable cd. The program shows a system reserved partition as it should but the windows partition was labelled just as '*' and was not active. I changed the windows partition to active. I also tried the following options with these results..
Set windows boot partition - Failed to find windows directory (although exploring the partition does contain the windows files)
Boot.ini editor - the selected partition does not contain boot.ini file
Rebuild MBR - process completed successfully
After restart I still have the same issue! Any other ideas on this would be greatly appreciated and feel free to ask any questions. I have repaired many laptops/pcs and have never come across this before.
Cheers Demi x