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January 28th, 2023 04:00
I have been given a Dell Inspiron 3671 desktop, without any primary drive.
I was given a Dell Inspiron 3671 desktop, without a primary drive. I had a 512Gb SSD, which I added. Windows 10 was installed OK, but when it restarted I cannot get passed the "No Bootable Device Found". Can anyone help, I am a pensioner with very little money.
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grahambl
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January 28th, 2023 11:00
I am sorry, but I tried what you said, but still the same result. I think it is something to do with the Bootstrap. The Dell is UEFI, and my laptop is MBR. So the Boot on the flash drive is MBR, but MBR is what loads Windows 10. The Dell is, on restarting, looking for UEFI Boot, cannot find one so comes out with an error.
Thank You for the Help,
grahambl
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January 28th, 2023 05:00
First of all make sure that in the BIOS, F2 at Boot, you have Windows Boot Manager first in the boot order.
Make sure you have the BIOS settings for UEFI and AHCI set to enabled. Also download the media creation tool for Windows 10 here instead of using Rufus (I am not sure which method you used). The media creation tool will create a bootable Windows 10 installation flash drive.
grahambl
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February 3rd, 2023 02:00
The solution was not a hardware problem, but a software workaround. I had a contact at Microsoft, so I contacted him. The Dell is expecting a UEFI Boot, but my laptop was an MBR Boot. I was going to have to change my laptop to UEFI if I want to use Windows 11. Windows 10 has a built-in convertor called MBR2GPT. I ran this on my laptop and converted to UEFI. Downloaded the Windows Media Creator again, and ran it. The flash drive was the taken to the Dell and after changing the boot sequence, Windows loaded with no further problems.
Graham Blake