No boot device error

[Robert]

So I’ve just started getting the No boot device please insert boot device” error. I’ve done the usual steps (yesterday the disk was healthy in Samsung magician).

- used diskpart, can’t do a fixboot as I get access denied. Done the steps do format the EFI partition but still get aces a denied.
- Disk is online and shoes as healthy in diskpart
- windows repair wouldn’t work
- just had the cmos battery out, still no joy
- going to try a format now

is this ever a case of just a dead drive? I’ll see how a format goes.

 

[Robert]

I offlined the drive and brought it back...no dice. Formatting seems to have worked for now. We will see.

 

[Robert]

Well, slightly concerned it’s underlying issue - seems ok at the moment