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Answer» <html><body><p>Sorry in advance for poor formatting, im on my phone. Here is the full story:<br/>I was trying to dual boot Ubuntu and that wasn't working so I attempted to delete the Ubuntu partition. After restarting, I got the following error:http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3518/t/19518806.aspx<br/>"Checking <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/media-11381" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about MEDIA">MEDIA</a> [failed] [...]<br/>No Boot Device Found. Press any key to reboot the machine"<br/><br/>To give you some background data I was running factory installed Windows 8 in UEFI mode.<br/><br/>So here is where I am now: I have data on C drive that I would like to keep, but I would much rather actually have my computer working with a fresh install if that's the best case. <br/><br/>When I go into boot options I only see UEFI onboard <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/lan-536494" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about LAN">LAN</a> IPv4 and UEFI onboard LAN IPv6.<br/><br/>To clarify, I do not have the option to boot from hard drive or from a USB (when I put a Windows 8 bootable USB in).<br/><br/>Some extra info: when I change the boot option from UEFI to Legacy I have the USB option pop up but I can't install windows because of the following error: <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/hu8gg0sgwz4lq9i/2013-10-13%2002.06.25.jpg">https://www.dropbox.com/s/hu8gg0sgwz4lq9i/2013-10-13%2002.06.25.jpg</a><br/><br/>I appreciate all your help in advance. Please respond with questions and requests for additional info and I will reply promptly. Thank you!!The HDD doesn't need to be <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/able-361137" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about ABLE">ABLE</a> to boot to retrieve your data...<br/>Get a laptop to IDE converter cable (least expensive solution ) or an external USB HDD enclosure that accomodates laptop HDD's...hook it up to a working desktop and copy/move all your data.Thanks for the quick reply Patio!<br/><br/>I was able to access my data using a Linux live CD with the file <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/explorer-455219" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about EXPLORER">EXPLORER</a>. <br/><br/>The <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/way-246442" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about WAY">WAY</a> I solved this problem was to use a UEFI bootable USB (this was created using UEFI instead of GPT as an option with a program called Rufus.)<br/><br/>The normal bootable USB didn't show in UEFI mode but this did. <br/><br/>Then I installed Windows 8 on a free space partition and now I have two versions installed and I will hopefully be able to access my data, but either way my computer will now boot!<br/><br/>Please close this thread.</p></body></html>


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