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No Bootable Device Found After Fresh Install

Anonymous
2020-01-29T13:57:14+00:00

I recently clean-installed Windows 10 after finding myself booting into a black screen with cursor post-login after having ran the memory diagnostic tool, and later getting a "No Bootable Devices Found" error after various unsuccessful repair attempts.

Clean-installing Windows from USB worked fine, although it ran into some errors in the first attempt. By the second attempt it installed quickly and easily, and booted into Windows with no problem, although it seemed to be running rather slowly, which I attibuted to drivers/etc installing in the background.

However, when attempting to restart after confirming that Windows was working properly and had the necessary drivers, the system shut down fine, powered on  again, got to the Acer logo and watched the balls spin for about ~30secs until it powered on and off again, once again displaying the "No Bootable Device" error.

Standard fixes from across the web didnt help; resetting my bios settings to default, adjusting the boot priority and ensuring "Windows Boot Manager (Intel Data_Volume)" is at the top, attempting automatic repair, booting to safe mode (which also gives me a "No Bootable Device" message), running the bootrec commands (which all either worked to no effect, gave me "access denied" errors, or displayed that zero Windows installations were found), none of those commonly listed fixes helped.

After troubleshooting for hours, i attempted a third windows install, which went by withiut issue and booted me easily into windows when completed; this time, I didnt try to install drivers in my own and made sure to create a system restore point, then attempted rebooting... Sure enough, the same cycle occured after powering back on and "No Bootable Device" is staring me in the face again.

I've heard some explanations saying this will happen if you installed Windows 10 in legacy mode instead of UEFI, but I've been able to confirm my Windows installation *is* UEFI, and my system bios's boot mode is correctly set to UEFI.

I do have an Intel Optane supplemented hard drive, and I've been curious if that could be causing problems, but so far i havent found any evidence for or against that being the case...

Chkdsk was successfully ran on my drive at some point during all this, but no errors were found.

At this point I feel like I've exhausted all my knowledge and I'm unsure what else to try... I appreciate any help you can throw my way, and I'm willing to provide any information I may have missed 

System Information:

Acer Swift 3, model SF315-52

Intel Core i5-8250U @ 1.60GHz

Windows 10, latest verion

8gb/8192mb ram

Toshiba MQ04ABF100 hard drive, 1tb

Intel MEMPEK1J016GA Optane memory, 16gb

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Sleep and Power on, off

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  1. Virginia M 40,735 Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2020-01-30T12:56:44+00:00

    Do you still require help?

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  2. Neil D 32,830 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2020-01-29T14:28:34+00:00

    Have you checked with Acer about the clean install routine?

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-01-29T14:14:33+00:00

    Which Windows version are you running - 1809, 1903 or 1909?

    It sounds like the hard drive may be failing or it’s not connected to the PC fully or the cables may be the problem.

    Ensure the cables &/or drive are fully inserted into the PC. 

    Im unsure where to find the 

    Windows version tbh, seeing as I cant cant actually boot into Windows to check... But given the fact that my installation USB stick was created yesterday, I have to assume it's whatever the latest version is

    Also I cant check the cables/drive insertion because its a mostly unibody laptop with no access ports and I dont have the skill needed to take it apart

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  4. Virginia M 40,735 Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2020-01-29T14:07:45+00:00

    Hello, I’m Virginia an independent advisor with 20 years of expertise in fixing my own & friends’ PC problems.

    Which Windows version are you running - 1809, 1903 or 1909?

    It sounds like the hard drive may be failing or it’s not connected to the PC fully or the cables may be the problem.

    Ensure the cables &/or drive are fully inserted into the PC.

    Second, if you have another PC (or can eventually boot the problem pc) then download Macrium Reflect & create their boot media, once created insert the USB into the problem PC & choose repair boot records & see if this fixes things.

    https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree

    If you can eventually boot the PC then try this: https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldis... to test the hard drive health.

    Note: This is a non-Microsoft website. The page appears to be providing accurate, safe information. Watch out for ads on the site that may advertise products frequently classified as a PUP (Potentially Unwanted Products).

    Please do not download any repair tool which may be offered by this site other than the ones I mention/recommend.

    Thoroughly research any product which is mentioned here before you decide to download and install it.

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  5. Virginia M 40,735 Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2020-01-29T14:15:46+00:00

    No worries.

    Move on to the Macrium boot USB then.

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