Compaq CQ62

I was given a Compaq CQ62 laptop to repair. The customer said it was not booting. When I

turned it on I was greeted wit the message "No Bootable device - Insert Boot disk and press

any key". I restarted the laptop and went into the BIOS to see if the hard drive was

detected. It was an Insyde BIOS and did not show either the CDROM or the hard drive. I was

able to plug in an external CD drive and get it to boot with that. After an exhaustive

search I found this website: http://malwaretips.com/threads/how-to-fix-no-bootable-device-

%E2%80%93-insert-boot-disk-and-press-any-key.8907/. I found that my primary problem was

seeing the hard drive so I could use the FixMbr and FixBoot commands. I had previously used

WipeDrive to label the C drive. Once I got a command prompt I changed to C drive and all the

commands worked to rebuild and fix the MBR. The steps are sequenced in the website but I

will go over them here.

First I used the external Hard drive to boot the laptop with a Windows 7 boot disk. Then

after selecting the language, I clicked on 'Repair your computer' This brought me to a

screen where I could select Command Prompt.

At the command prompt I typed 'C:' and hit enter. this took me to the C drive that I wanted

to install my operating system on. Then I typed 'bootrec.exe /FixMbr after a second the screen said the operation completed

successfully. My Master Boot Record was fixed. But that wasn't all I had to do. Next I typed 'bootrec.exe /FixBoot'. Then 'bootrec.exe /RebuildBcd' I then typed 'DiskPart' and hit enter. I was now in the DiskPart program. I typed 'List Disk' and I was shown the hard drive. it was disk 0. Then I typed 'Select Disk 0' and <enter> Then I typed 'List Partition' This showed me all the partitions on my disk. There was only

one. it was partition 0 I typed 'Select Partition 0' Then I typed 'Active' I exited and rebooted the laptop with the external hard drive and the Windows 7 boot disk.

This time I was able to see the hard drive and install Windows onto it.