Check cable connection. No boot device.

This in the picture happen to my aw18 after I disabled the raid0 partition on the stock 2x750gb hdd.

I installed a 256gb msata as boot disk and fresh installed drivers. I formatted the disk0 raid partition (stock boot drive) and everything is ok booting to msata.

Then I plan to remove one of the 750gb so I can put my 128gd SSD. So I disabled the raid from RST and reformatted the drives individually.

It seems everything is working good being msata as C, 750s as D and E and optical as F.

Then when I was about to reboot. This message appears.

Please help.



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What do you mean by 'fresh installed drivers' and booting ok to msata? What did you do between it booting ok from the new mSATA drive and displaying this error message?

Check your boot device priority in the BIOS because at the moment it looks like the system can't find a bootable drive so it's falling back to trying to boot from the NIC - The cable disconnected does not mean your drives are unplugged.

 

If you see this message and afterwards Windows loads, your boot device order is out of sequence. That is boot from LAN and it should be last instead of first. Simply change the order in the BIOS.

If you only see this and "No boot device found" it looks as though you may have formatted your active drive and made it no longer bootable. Try using your Windows DVD or USB thumb drive and choose the option to repair your computer. In the Windows Repair there is a utility to fix Windows installations that will not boot. It should restore your boot record and/or BCD, whatever it finds that is causing your system to no longer boot.

Because your OS was booting from HDD RAID0 before, by breaking the RAID membership, this would make your Windows installation unbootable. When you installed Windows to mSATA it probably used the original active disk. That's why it is a good idea to disconnect any extra drives during Windows installation. It prevents that from happening by mistake. Had you broken the RAID members before installing Windows, Setup would have most likely made your mSATA the active device instead of leaving the RAID0 membership as the active device.

 

I reinstalled windows and drivers to msata. I was already booting from it back and forth while reinstalling dell drivers.

Problem started when I separated the 2x750gb drive from being combined as raid0 storage.

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Now I'm just reinstalling windows again to the 128gb SSD because the laptop doesn't seem to boot from msata.

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I explained why. Your RAID0 was the active device and installing Windows to the mSATA left it as the active device. When you broke the RAID membership that rendered you system as unbootable. This was a result of simple user error. Everything is OK with your hardware. You most likely could have repaired it. It will boot from mSATA just fine as long as the mSATA is made the active (bootable) device.

 

Ok ill try repairing first Mr. Fox. Will report back. Thanks.

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Ok I replaced one of the he'd with my ssd on disk0 and its showing BOOTMGR missing.


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Do I have to reinstall again windows on msata?

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Sorry Mr. Fox. I read your post but it's hard posting from the cell. The msata must still have the windows so I'll check the bios for boot sequence and see if it will boot. Tnx

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No worries. I know web surfing is not very good using a phone browser. I avoid it as often as possible.

It should still have Windows installed if you did not reformat the mSATA, but you may need to make it bootable. If the RAID0 volume was bootable before you installed Windows to mSATA it probably remained the active (boot) device and by breaking the RAID membership after installing Windows to mSATA that rendered your system unbootable. Running Windows Setup and choosing the repair option will most likely fix the problem. If it does not you will need to reinstall Windows.

 

Mr Fox!!! You are my saviour! I'm on PC browser now
Repair fixed the boot.

I'm now booting from mSata again, and have my 128GB SSD as drive D and the 750GB as drive E. I removed the other 750GB.
Wow! That saved me from doing it all over again.

I'm doing creating respawn backup Thanks. Now I can go out drink hehe!

 

Cool! I knew you could do it, buddy. Good job!

 

Not without your help sir!