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No boot device available means the boot device hard drive on your system has no bootable operating system installed on it, or it is faulty. In the BIOS setup program, does the computer recognize the hard drive you installed, and is it included in the boot device list? If you installed a new hard drive because of a failure of the C: drive, the new hard disk does not come with an operating system. You have to install that on the new hard drive from the manufacturer's system restore disks. SATA channels 1 and 2 are just the connections on the motherboard for devices, and usually have a hard drive on one connection and a cd rom drive on the other. Giving the model and manufacturer of your computer might provide more clues.
There have been several times that people have been stuck with a virus infected or a corrupt Windows Operating System and are finding it very difficult to get a fresh installation because of a boot order problem. It could also be a clean working Operating System but the user just wants a new one. The PC, whether laptop or desktop, could be a gift from a friend or one that they have been using for some time.
In the case of a gift from a friend, it could be that a forgotten password has been set in the bios and all has been done by the user to gain access but to no avail. There are also situations whereby the boot order is set alright to boot from CD/DVD but the PC just fails to boot from the CD. In these cases, even thought the bootable CD/DVD is in the drive, the PC just boots straight to the unwanted Operating System but you know that your CD/DVD drive works fine.
Here's what to do: Obtain appropriate screw drivers and carefully remove the hard disk from the laptop or desktop. Now Obtain an appropriate external hard disk connector for the type of hard drive you have. In the case of a desktop hard disk, you could easily connect it as a slave hard drive in another available desktop by setting the jumper to the slave position (could be primary slave or secondary slave depending on the drives in the PC).
Try and backup any important files from the hard disk or from the partition with the Operation System in the case where more than one partition exists on the hard drive. When that is done, then you will need a Hard Disk or Partition Management Software like Windows Disk Management(which can be accessed by right-clicking on 'My Computer' and selecting 'Manage' and the 'Disk Management' in the resulting window). You can also use a third party software.
Now delete the partition and create a new Partition (Primary Partition). Then format the partition (NTFS file system recommended). When this is done, disconnect the hard disk and fix it back into the PC. Now you are ready to install a fresh Windows Operation System. Turn on the PC, Insert the bootable Operating System CD/DVD (e.g Windows XP) and there you go: your PC will automatically boot from the CD/DVD.
I looks like your computer is trying to boot off of a floppy disk that is not present or doesnt work.
Hit the f2 and enter setup Look for BOOT and choose c: drive or hard disk drive as your first boot device.
If this fixes the problem then you know your hard drive is good. If the drive is good you probably want your first boot device to be your dvd or cd rom drive. Then you want your Hard drive second.
If your hard drive wont boot the drive itself could be bad or your operating system will need to be reinstalled.
Your harddrive is bad or corrupted.Find any boot apps like http://www.bootdisk.com/pendrive.htm
.Try the steps Premchand Chakkungal and select First Boot Device to
boot on the CD drive.I use method 1 but there are more.Post back any
quest.
Your computer cannot find a boot-able storage device, i.e. hard disk drive, to boot from. Either your hard disk drive is defective or the OS (operating system software) is corrupted and needs to be re-installed.
Go back to setup and check your boot sequence. It may not be looking for your hard disk. Do you know what Hard disk you have? It may not be wired in there properly if it's in the boot sequence. Set DVD/CD to 1st boot device and put in your installation disk. Do you boot now? Do you have data on your hard disk you need? If not, Re-format the drive.
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It sounds like you are having a hard drive failure.
The message your getting is not asking for the motherboard disk, it is asking for an operating system disk.
I don't understand how the computer ever get's to the Net if it can't get past asking for a system disk.
Please provide further information, such as operating system, how old the computer and hard drive are, and a more clear description of what the system is, or is not, doing.
change the boot sequence in bios set up ... keep in this order first boot device as floppy 2.hard disk 3.cdrom
then save it and then have a check it should work .. you have not mention hard disk here so i think the hard disk is not detected there may be some loose contact inside and it is not connected properly so it is not able to verify DMI pool ... if so connect the hard disk properly then then have a check it will surely work..........
Could you provide me with the specification of your system
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