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No bootable devices available error-please help ASAP (Solved)


Best Answer Elton yu , 04 November 2015 - 06:06 AM

HEY GUYS any of you still around?    So i got my laptop checked and my brothers gonna take it to the shop to replace the dam harddrive (it was the harddrives fault as said by a technician... Go to the full post »


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Can i saave data from my laptop in the current state that its in?

Also how do i set writing speed when making a repair disc

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Can i saave data from my laptop in the current state that its in?

we can try, using the Linux Live CD.

Also how do i set writing speed when making a repair disc

Look at reply #165, every burning software has a similar write speed box, by clicking the arrow then select the speed. 


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I dont see any other option in the burning software
And i dont know how to use third party burn programs to create a repair disc
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like i said before been a long time since i've used a windows pc and my memory isn't the greatest but if there is no way to make imgburn the default burner on windows instead of whatever it uses when it creates a system repair disk then your going to need to just try it and hope like the ubcd disk this one will work in your laptops drive.

 

don't know if windows media player is the default burner used when creating a system repair disk but if it is then this link might help you change the speed it burns at. :-  http://windows.micro...s#1TC=windows-7

 

this link may also help you change the burner default to imgburn so with luck when you try to create the repair disk imgburn software will popup and open so you can change speeds there as shown in iammykyl's earlier post. :- http://www.dummies.c...-windows-7.html

make sure to note what was the default so you can change it back later if you want or you can leave imgburn as the default.

 

 

 

yes you can probably use the kde live to backup your data depending on some things, you'd need to have an external hard drive or large usb pendrive to copy the files onto of course, and if you can burn a kde live disk that will actually boot to the desktop without those errors/missing files that were encountered with the first burned disk.

 

personally with the kde live iso image (or any downloaded software really that provided a checksum of some type.) i'd check it's sha1 checksum

8a795d0a03161839831b7eca66fedd215a861451  openSUSE-13.2-KDE-Live-x86_64.iso

against the download file to make sure it's not corrupt, before trying to burn it to a disk at the 4x or slowest speed possible.

 

i don't remember if that's possible on windows without downloading some software or other so it's up to you if you want to verify if the download is good first or just try again with imgburn but at it's slowest speed possible.

 

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Im gonna have to burn the repair disc in another time,im too busy to do so
Any more ideas we can do?
Its looking quite dark for this situation...T_T
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sorry no, there is no way i can think of to repair your os until you have a medium that will boot correctly in the first place to attempt such repairs seeing how the built in options don't work.

 

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[bleep]...
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So it turns out my cousin does have a win 7 disc,
Question,are there different kinds of win 7 discs or theres jist 1 version that fixes all versins of windows 7
Also...will.it.finally.fix.the.oproblem?
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having access to a windows install disc is good news.

Any version should work as all we need is to use the CMD prompt to run SFC.

We won't know if it works until you try it.

 

There are still a couple of options if it fails. FIRST and Rufus, this may depend on if your Laptop will boot fro USB.

Post back when you have the disc. 


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Um i got the win 7 disc now what

Btw can i view my mac adress without going to the desktop?
If so how,pls replay ASAP
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To find a MAC address you haveto havesome sort of OS system running,

http://www.wikihow.c...f-Your-Computer  Even if you find it, what do you think you can do with it?

 

Put the windows installation disc in the Laptop, < restart and boot from CD

follow the instructions below,   Does the CMD window open? 


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So i inserted it in and nope,sends me to a black screen.it cant read the disc?
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Is this,the end?
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Does the Windows 7 installation disc work on your computer?

Does the UBCD disc still work on the Laptop?


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Yes it does work on pc
Yes it does work on laptop
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