Dell inspiron 2330 AIO shows no bootable device. i installed a new hard drive and it still says no bootable device

Your hard drive's Master Boot Record might be the problem. If it was corrupted then the bios will not see a bootable hard drive.

Three things you have to do in order to solve this.

1. purchase a 2.5" external enclosure, remove the hard drive and put it in there.
2. purchase another 2.5" hard drive for the laptop and reinstall Windows.
3. once the reinstall is done, plug the enclosure into the laptop by the usb cable and copy your data to the new hard drive.

Check your BIOS, by pressing F2 and see if the hard drive is recognized. It should indicate the MFR next to the hard drive listing. If it's not there, then you might have a bad hard drive. If it is there, try re-installing the operating system with the set-up disk. You can also go to the Dell website, enter you service tag number, and get technical support for your particular laptop. It might have a recovery partition in the hard drive to recover to factory settings.

Dear user,

You did not mention the make and model of your computer which is required for the best help.

To change the bootable device you need to go to bios setting. Depending on your computer make and model the way to go to bios could be different though generally you can go to bios by continuously tapping on F1 or F2 or F9 or F10 or F11 etc The moment you press the power button and you see flashing brand scree like dell, hp etc. start tapping on F1 or F2 or F9 or F10 or F11 only one key at a time.

The best option is to install any version of windows is to use Wintobootic search and download it on a computer. Use any storage device like external hard disk or pen drive. make sure the storage device is completely blank when you make it bootable. insert your windows CD and Open wintobootic, select source and make bootable storage device.

u need to install the OS...boot files r loaded only when the OS files are found by BIOS

your mainboard is broke down. it doesnt see HDD.

Try removing the Hard Drive and then installing it again. Go into F2 Setup to see if the hard drive is listed there. Until you can get it listed there it won't work. It could be it is not installed correctly or is not a valid HD.

try to installed dell print

I think your lap top fails to detect your hard disk. Enter Bios settings and confirm that the hard disk is detected.

Hi and welcome to FixYa,

Offhand, this error message is indicative tht the CMOS/BIOS could no longer detect, recognize, access and use the internal hard drive of the laptop. Sorry to be bringing you the bad news.

Corrective solution wold be to replace the HD, perform a clean/fresh install of your Operating System. In some models, there are recovery Cs that would facilitate the process. In the absence of such, an OEM Windows CD installer would serve the same purpose even if borrowed and the CD key printed on the sticker underneath the laptop be used.

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I am using the dell system at XPS710 and i kept getting the bios error:
No boot device available

I tried to hit F1, then i get that message again. I hit F2, then it i didn't see the problem.

PLEASE HELP! No ignores!