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Installed Ubuntu on a Dell Inspiron and now I'm getting an error saying there is no bootable hard drive found. I've reseated the hard drive already.

Asked by Joshua Glass

I installed Ubuntu on a Dell Inspiron 15 which was previously running Windows 8. Everything with the install went smoothly but after I set up everything and the computer tried to restart I got an error that reads "internal hard disk drive no found to resolve this issue, try to reseat the drive. No bootable devices -- strike F1 to retry boot, F2 enter Setup Menu, F5 enter PSA"

I've reseated the drive and I've run the full set of tests available in the PSA and all of them come up clean. It's not a terribly old computer or hard drive, 2 years at the most so all of the hardware should be perfectly fine.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

If you reboot end press the key to enter BIOS setup, do you see any information about hard disks in the BIOS information and setup dialogues?
If yes, does the information (e.g. manufacturer, type size) seem to be correct?
If you do not see any hard disk detected by the BIOS, then you most probably have a hardware problem.

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louis (wilson-louis78) said : 		#2

I'm having the same problem I installed Ubuntu normally and when I rebooted came up with No bootable media?

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#3

@louis: please do not piggyback on someone else's question, but create a question document of your own.

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