Hard Drive Recovery

March 26, 2009

in computer hardware,computer performance,Windows

by David Hakala

Probably the worst sight a computer owner can see is this message on an otherwise black screen:

“No boot device, please insert a bootable media.”

Your hard drive is hosed. Windows won’t start, even as far as the Recovery Console. What is wrong, and what are you going to do?
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