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I'm running my home PC with two partitions on the primary HDD, dual booting XP and Win8. It normally stays on XP.
So tonight the PC started acting a little weird. I tried starting up my RDP links to office computers, and none of them worked. I did a restart, but before it would actually shut down it kept saying the RDP process had to close, 5 different times.
After restarting it was very slow coming back up in XP. I finally got programs working, including RDP. I logged onto my office computer and did what I needed to do, then closed the RDP connection. I noticed some other programs were VERY VERY slow to come up.
So I thought I'd try booting into Windows 8. After choosing the Windows 8 options from the boot menu, it immediately said "Preparing repair options" or something like that, below the Windows logo and spinning dots. Then the only options it gave me were to open repair options, or turn off the computer. I tried one of the options (can't remember which ones now), but it was something that prompted a reboot. After rebooting, the dreaded "No Bootable Device" message appeared. I did check in BIOS and all my hard drive device names did show up.
I can't seem to find the Windows 8 DVD that I made, but I tried putting in the WinXP CD. Tried a repair XP installation on the C: drive. It copied all the files, but after that it still said No Bootable Device.
Next I tried Recovery Console from the XP CD. Tried running CHKDSK, it said some error was found but gave me no more info. I tried running FIXMBR and FIXBOOT. Both said they ran successfully. Restarted again, and after a VERRRY long wait before the BIOS splash screen (just a black screen with cursor), it finally came up once again with No Bootable Device.
What the heck could have happened? I have a HDD enclosure at work that has a power supply and USB cable, so I'll probably stick the HDD in there and hook it up to my laptop just to see if it will show the files on it. Anything else I should look at in the meantime?
So tonight the PC started acting a little weird. I tried starting up my RDP links to office computers, and none of them worked. I did a restart, but before it would actually shut down it kept saying the RDP process had to close, 5 different times.
After restarting it was very slow coming back up in XP. I finally got programs working, including RDP. I logged onto my office computer and did what I needed to do, then closed the RDP connection. I noticed some other programs were VERY VERY slow to come up.
So I thought I'd try booting into Windows 8. After choosing the Windows 8 options from the boot menu, it immediately said "Preparing repair options" or something like that, below the Windows logo and spinning dots. Then the only options it gave me were to open repair options, or turn off the computer. I tried one of the options (can't remember which ones now), but it was something that prompted a reboot. After rebooting, the dreaded "No Bootable Device" message appeared. I did check in BIOS and all my hard drive device names did show up.
I can't seem to find the Windows 8 DVD that I made, but I tried putting in the WinXP CD. Tried a repair XP installation on the C: drive. It copied all the files, but after that it still said No Bootable Device.
Next I tried Recovery Console from the XP CD. Tried running CHKDSK, it said some error was found but gave me no more info. I tried running FIXMBR and FIXBOOT. Both said they ran successfully. Restarted again, and after a VERRRY long wait before the BIOS splash screen (just a black screen with cursor), it finally came up once again with No Bootable Device.
What the heck could have happened? I have a HDD enclosure at work that has a power supply and USB cable, so I'll probably stick the HDD in there and hook it up to my laptop just to see if it will show the files on it. Anything else I should look at in the meantime?
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows XP
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Home built