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Recent content by quantizedself

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    no bootable device, Acer Predator Windows 10

    I just tried going back to UEFI and disabling secure boot. Then making sure my USB drives are first in the boot order above the SSD. Now puppy Linux doesn't load at all. Instead, I get a screen that says there is a problem booting Windows and it instructs me to use the bootable media to repair...
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    no bootable device, Acer Predator Windows 10

    BTW, I should mention that I just checked the USB media, and that file 'lupu-511.sfs' is definitely there. Also I had to put the boot mode to Legacy because it didn't boot with UEFI
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    no bootable device, Acer Predator Windows 10

    This did not work. I had to install it to the USB on another computer. Once that was successful, I put it in my broken computer to boot from USB. However, I got a screen that says: Loading drivers needed to access drives Searching for Puppy files in computer disk drives...lupu-511.sfs not...
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    no bootable device, Acer Predator Windows 10

    No, It's just me. But where should I look? I swear i've gone through every folder. I'll double check to make sure system and hidden files are visible. I was in my profile in the windows system. Is there any other place I can look? That .ini file has to link to somewhere, right? Same thing with...
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    no bootable device, Acer Predator Windows 10

    I have Ubuntu bootable media, and so I tried to access my SSD through that by "trying without install". The weird thing is that I could access some folders but others I couldn't. For example, I have a lot of my data just in folders on my desktop. So when I went to the desktop location in the...
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    no bootable device, Acer Predator Windows 10

    Last week I got a no bootable device error after my computer completely froze up forcing me to restart. This had happened a handful of times in recent months, but it always booted up after a couple restarts. This time it didn't. Here's what I've done: Reset the battery, and re-seated the SSD...