Once on a pleasant morning you wish to listen music on your laptop, but what’s this shit going on as you wish to open it you got an error message displaying ‘No Bootable Device Found’. You tried all your effort but failed as you are not a geek of computer and its related term. Friends to help you in such an awkward situation I have written this blog for you. It will be helpful for you and will provide you the best possible solution.
'No Bootable Device' - What Does It Mean and Solution To Fix It?
BIOS (The Basic Input Output System) which is an inbuilt software in your computer and independent of the operating system, which loads or 'boots' it into operation. The message 'No Bootable device' is displayed by BIOS on your computer system when it cannot find an operating system to load from any storage medium on the PC.
The actual loading of the operating system is "Booting", executed by BIOS. Like a floppy disk, hard drive, CD, DVD, 'Boot Device' is also a storage medium, which carry the installed operating system files. If that device is not located the above mentioned error message is displayed on your screen.
Here are three of the possible causes, that may lead to this kind of an error.
Corruption Of Operating System File:
Crashing of installed operating system on your system's hard drive is the main cause of not detection of booting device by BIOS. This kind of problem happens because of virus attack Due to a virus attack your operating system's existing working installation may get corrupted. That's the reason, on startup, the operating system can not be detected by BIOS and you computer's screen displays the message "No Bootable Device Found".
Solution:
The only way to solve this problem is to load the
disk recovery or CD of your operating system in your computer's optical drive and run a complete reinstallation. Use best antivirus software to save your computer system from virus attack. If you already have an antivirus then update it regularly to make your computer virus free.
Hard Drive Disconnected:
Many time it happens that your hard drive is disconnected from motherboard.In this case BIOS is unable to detect the hard drive as a bootable device. To check this type of problem, enter BIOS setup by pressing the appropriate key (F1, F2 or any other) during startup.
Solution:
To solve this problem, you have to check the connection of hard drive to motherboard. To check it you have to open up your computer's cabinet. If the connecting cable from the motherboard has disconnected from the hard drive then restoring the connection should solve your problem. In case of laptop you have to do the same as desktop computer.
Hard Drive Crash:
Crashing of this hard drive also the reason behind display on error message problem. It may be happen because of actual physical damage of the hard drive or creation of bad sectors. Since the hard drive is damaged, it may not be detected by BIOS, leading to a booting problem.
Solution:
To solve this problem you have to replace the hard drive of your computer.
After following the steps describe above you may able to solve this error message displaying problem of your computer.If still your computer suffers from this kind of problem you need to ask computer technician or go for
computer repair.