"No boot device, press a key." Unable to access BIOS. Does not start a DVD. USB not a startup option.

How can I get into the BIOS or boot from a Live CD or the Windows installation disk?

Here's the background info:

Laptop: Acer TravelMate P273-MG-6608

OS: Windows 8.1

Actions leading to the problem:

I tried to encrypt the drive using BitLocker.

On reboot, I get the error message "no boot device, press a key."

When I hit a button, I get a boot menu that lists the HARD drive, DVD player and optional network initialization.

Booting from either the HARD drive (of course) or DVD does not work.

The discs I've tried:

Acer system restore disk

Restore Win 7 disc

UBCD

Hiren

Ubuntu installation (Saw elsewhere on this forum that worked for someone).

Methods that tried to access the BIOS:

Turn on/off the laptop while holding down the key F2.

While tapping the F2 key about once per second.

Same thing with the delete key.

Same thing with F10.

Same thing with Alt + F10

Same thing with F8.

Each method has tried several times without success.

Action taken:

Removed the HARD drive and connected to a work computer. In doing so, I was able to recover all my files.

Player settings appeared to all be correct. Drive letter C:, file NTFS format, primary partition, the recovery partition was there as well.

Re-inserted the original in the laptop HARD drive - without success.

Formatted the primary partition on the HARD drive, put it in the laptop, the same results.

Formatted the entire HARD drive, put it in the laptop, the same results.

What I see as options:

1. format the HARD drive outside Windows, for example using Hiren's Boot CD and Gparted.

2. in so doing, and imaging of the player with a 8.1 for Windows or ISO 7, if I can find a.

3. If I can get into the BIOS, I should be able to get the laptop to boot from something. Or disable UEFI, which I think is part of the question.

Any ideas on how I can enter the BIOS or get the laptop to boot from the HARD disk or a floppy disk?

Solved.

I downloaded the required BIOS file of:

http://global-download.Acer.com/GDFiles/BIOS/BIOS/BIOS_Acer_2.08_A_A.zip?acerid=635114527449782829&S...

Once downloaded, I extracted the files from the archive .zip.

Then I low-level formatted a disk USB flash with the FAT32 file system.

Once this is done, I copied the files from within the archive on the USB flash drive.

With the USB stick inserted into the laptop, I turned on it while pressing ALT + ESC. This brough to the top of the screen where I choose to hit F2 for the program installation, or F12 for the boot menu.

I pressed F2 and the BIOS came admin screen. Then I yelled something like ' Hallelujah! "

I changed the MBR to the STRANGE device, put in the first disk to factory default retrieve and press F10 to save and exit the BIOS.

The Acer splash screen went up, and the laptop booted into the recovery disc. It should work here.

I hope this helps someone in the future.

Tags: Acer Laptops

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