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Acer boot erorr .... "no bootable device – insert boot disk and press any key"

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12/8/12 at 8:42pm
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I have a Acer Aspire V3-571G-6602 model. I am experiencing an issue where I receive this message: no bootable device – insert boot disk and press any key. I have googled for many potential answers. The situation started when my original HDD had a disk error. I backed that up into my tera drive... and bought a SSD. I started my laptop with the new SSD and booted/installed Linux Fedora. After the next boot, I received an error of "no bootable device... blah blah". In no case can I get my laptop to even boot Fedora with the new SSD. I tried my old HDD, and that still boots my semi-broken version of Windows 8... So I know I might have messed something up with SSD. With the "no bootable device..." error, I've seen many FAQs/forums that say I can try and use an Acer recovery disk to solve this... But I have no idea what's going to work. Can you help?

 

Tried so far:

buying an ENTIRELY new SSD, rebooting, changing boot order in BIOS, taking the SSD out and putting it in repeatedly.

 

Help?

 

Thanks,

 David

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post #2 of 3
12/9/12 at 7:58am
Are you using/assigning the whole disk space for Fedora?

cheers ...
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post #3 of 3
12/12/12 at 12:49pm
Things to try:

Another Linux flavor, ie Ubuntu, SUSE etc...
Try setting the boot device to IDE mode in the BIOS, or if it set to that change it to ACHI mode.
Is there a BIOS update for the laptop - some controllers won't accept an SSD, however a bit odd if you can install to the SSD.
Try a live linux disk, Gparted is good as is ubuntu and see if the SSD can be seen within the live operating system.

Just some ideas at the moment...
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