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days old, you know it might have suffered a burn-in failure, a rare problem

that can affect any new electronics device. If the customer smells something,

one of the components might have fried. Try replacing with known good

devices: RAM, power supply, CPU, hard drive, motherboard.

If the user says that the screen says “No boot device detected” and the

system worked fine before, it could mean something as simple as the

computer has attempted to boot to an incorrect device, such as to something

other than the primary hard drive. This scenario happens all the time.

Someone plugs a thumb drive into a USB port and the CMOS is configured

to boot to removable media before hard drives—boom! “No boot device

detected” error. The first few times it happened to me, I nearly took my

machine apart before experiencing that head-slapping moment. I removed the

thumb drive and then watched Windows boot normally.

Failure to Boot: Windows

Two critical boot files risk corruption in Windows, bootmgr and bcd, both of

which you can fix with one tool, bcdedit. You can use this tool in the

Windows Recovery Environment.

WinPE

Starting with Windows Vista, Microsoft upgraded the installation

environment from the 16-bit text mode environment used in every previous

version of Windows to 32- and 64-bit. This upgrade enabled the Windows

installation process to go graphical and support features such as a mouse

pointer and clickable elements, rather than relying on command-line tools.

Microsoft calls the installation environment the Windows Preinstallation

Environment (WinPE or Windows PE).

With Windows PE, you boot directly to the Windows media (DVD or

flash-media drive). This loads a limited-function graphical operating system

that contains both troubleshooting and diagnostic tools, along with

installation options.

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