Laptop only boots from HD if a bootable windows 8 or higher installer usb is attached to it
I have an old Dell Latitude E5500 series laptop. It's primary hard drive bay/socket is dead. So I have my hard drive attached to it's DVD room via Caddy.
But I'm facing a problem. It's that if I boot my laptop normally without any bootable USB attached to it, it throws an error saying no hard drive / bootable media found. But if I attach a windows bootable installer USB to it, it boots from the hard drive and start the operating system.
I thought it to be a bootloader problem so I dual booted my windows 8.1 with Ubuntu hopping to fix the issue but it didn't work. I have to attach a windows bootable USB to make it go to Grub for OS selection else it will throw the same HD not found error.
Also it only works with Windows 8 or higher bootable USB. The Linux live USB does not make it to boot from hard drive.
Is there any possible explanation for it ?
boot laptop windows-8.1
asked Dec 27 '18 at 7:22
Rana Ali RazaRana Ali Raza
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I have an old Dell Latitude E5500 series laptop. It's primary hard drive bay/socket is dead. So I have my hard drive attached to it's DVD room via Caddy.
But I'm facing a problem. It's that if I boot my laptop normally without any bootable USB attached to it, it throws an error saying no hard drive / bootable media found. But if I attach a windows bootable installer USB to it, it boots from the hard drive and start the operating system.
I thought it to be a bootloader problem so I dual booted my windows 8.1 with Ubuntu hopping to fix the issue but it didn't work. I have to attach a windows bootable USB to make it go to Grub for OS selection else it will throw the same HD not found error.
Also it only works with Windows 8 or higher bootable USB. The Linux live USB does not make it to boot from hard drive.
Is there any possible explanation for it ?
boot laptop windows-8.1
asked Dec 27 '18 at 7:22
Rana Ali RazaRana Ali Raza
67
have you checked your BIOS boot options?
– yosh m
Dec 27 '18 at 7:25
Yes it's set to hard drive. But if i go to boot selection menu on boot, hard drive option is not displayed there.
– Rana Ali Raza
Dec 27 '18 at 7:27
You can try fixing the master boot record following this guide: pureinfotech.com/repair-master-boot-record-mbr-windows-10
– LPChip
Dec 27 '18 at 10:38
@LPChip I have tried it. It doesn't work.
– Rana Ali Raza
Dec 27 '18 at 13:08
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I have an old Dell Latitude E5500 series laptop. It's primary hard drive bay/socket is dead. So I have my hard drive attached to it's DVD room via Caddy.
But I'm facing a problem. It's that if I boot my laptop normally without any bootable USB attached to it, it throws an error saying no hard drive / bootable media found. But if I attach a windows bootable installer USB to it, it boots from the hard drive and start the operating system.
I thought it to be a bootloader problem so I dual booted my windows 8.1 with Ubuntu hopping to fix the issue but it didn't work. I have to attach a windows bootable USB to make it go to Grub for OS selection else it will throw the same HD not found error.
Also it only works with Windows 8 or higher bootable USB. The Linux live USB does not make it to boot from hard drive.
Is there any possible explanation for it ?
boot laptop windows-8.1
asked Dec 27 '18 at 7:22
Rana Ali RazaRana Ali Raza
67
I have an old Dell Latitude E5500 series laptop. It's primary hard drive bay/socket is dead. So I have my hard drive attached to it's DVD room via Caddy.
But I'm facing a problem. It's that if I boot my laptop normally without any bootable USB attached to it, it throws an error saying no hard drive / bootable media found. But if I attach a windows bootable installer USB to it, it boots from the hard drive and start the operating system.
I thought it to be a bootloader problem so I dual booted my windows 8.1 with Ubuntu hopping to fix the issue but it didn't work. I have to attach a windows bootable USB to make it go to Grub for OS selection else it will throw the same HD not found error.
Also it only works with Windows 8 or higher bootable USB. The Linux live USB does not make it to boot from hard drive.
Is there any possible explanation for it ?
boot laptop windows-8.1
boot laptop windows-8.1
asked Dec 27 '18 at 7:22
Rana Ali RazaRana Ali Raza
67
asked Dec 27 '18 at 7:22
Rana Ali RazaRana Ali Raza
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asked Dec 27 '18 at 7:22
Rana Ali RazaRana Ali Raza
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asked Dec 27 '18 at 7:22
Rana Ali RazaRana Ali Raza
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asked Dec 27 '18 at 7:22
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have you checked your BIOS boot options?
– yosh m
Dec 27 '18 at 7:25
Yes it's set to hard drive. But if i go to boot selection menu on boot, hard drive option is not displayed there.
– Rana Ali Raza
Dec 27 '18 at 7:27
You can try fixing the master boot record following this guide: pureinfotech.com/repair-master-boot-record-mbr-windows-10
– LPChip
Dec 27 '18 at 10:38
@LPChip I have tried it. It doesn't work.
– Rana Ali Raza
Dec 27 '18 at 13:08
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have you checked your BIOS boot options?
– yosh m
Dec 27 '18 at 7:25
Yes it's set to hard drive. But if i go to boot selection menu on boot, hard drive option is not displayed there.
– Rana Ali Raza
Dec 27 '18 at 7:27
You can try fixing the master boot record following this guide: pureinfotech.com/repair-master-boot-record-mbr-windows-10
– LPChip
Dec 27 '18 at 10:38
@LPChip I have tried it. It doesn't work.
– Rana Ali Raza
Dec 27 '18 at 13:08
have you checked your BIOS boot options?
– yosh m
Dec 27 '18 at 7:25
have you checked your BIOS boot options?
– yosh m
Dec 27 '18 at 7:25
Yes it's set to hard drive. But if i go to boot selection menu on boot, hard drive option is not displayed there.
– Rana Ali Raza
Dec 27 '18 at 7:27
Yes it's set to hard drive. But if i go to boot selection menu on boot, hard drive option is not displayed there.
– Rana Ali Raza
Dec 27 '18 at 7:27
You can try fixing the master boot record following this guide: pureinfotech.com/repair-master-boot-record-mbr-windows-10
– LPChip
Dec 27 '18 at 10:38
You can try fixing the master boot record following this guide: pureinfotech.com/repair-master-boot-record-mbr-windows-10
– LPChip
Dec 27 '18 at 10:38
@LPChip I have tried it. It doesn't work.
– Rana Ali Raza
Dec 27 '18 at 13:08
@LPChip I have tried it. It doesn't work.
– Rana Ali Raza
Dec 27 '18 at 13:08
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have you checked your BIOS boot options?
– yosh m
Dec 27 '18 at 7:25
Yes it's set to hard drive. But if i go to boot selection menu on boot, hard drive option is not displayed there.
– Rana Ali Raza
Dec 27 '18 at 7:27
You can try fixing the master boot record following this guide: pureinfotech.com/repair-master-boot-record-mbr-windows-10
– LPChip
Dec 27 '18 at 10:38
@LPChip I have tried it. It doesn't work.
– Rana Ali Raza
Dec 27 '18 at 13:08