Dell inspiron 570 no bootable device

[mholly600]

I have looked everywhere and seen this issue but no real solutions.
This is a Dell inspiron 570 running Windows 7 and a Seagate Hard drive

Here is the error:

"No bootable devices available strike f1 to retry boot.

SATA 0 : Installed

SATA 1 - Installed.

SATA 2 - NONE

SATA 3 - NONE

The system will always boot if I enter setup (F2) or if I enter boot choices (F12) or os choices(F5).

The Sagate drive is listed as the first boot device. I have run Sea tools and found no errors. Both under Dos and Windows

The system will always boot to a Ubuntu cd or thumb drive inserted.

After it successfully boots it will always reboot successfully and will boot several times from a cold start but intermittently (1 in 5) fails to the error listed above.

I did a Nuke and pave on the os sector of the drive back to factory settings and still fails 1 in 5 times.

I have reset the BIOS and changed the battery Still no change.

I have changed the SATA Cable with no change.

I have updated the BIOS to the most current version and no change.

I cannot believe that it could still be a drive. But I am thinking it has something to do the drive setup for the protected sectors that provide the Dell recovery data but I really don't know how that can be repaired unless I do a complete low level format and restore the drive from an image but because of the error I am not sure if the image will just but the error back on the drive.

I don't want to purchase a hard drive if I am not sure if it is the real problem when it exhibits no errors.

 

[yash kumar]

Change the port to which the Hard Drive is connected.
And also remove the sata cable of your DVD drive/SSD and just plug in the OS HDD and boot.

 

[nubbsauce]

For some reason, your windows decided to mess up the boot file. There is a way to fix that and force it to boot from what ever drive you want through cmd prompt. I don't know the code by heart since I've only had to do it once, but it works none the less.

But before you resort to google. Let's see what I can do.

*EDIT* Make sure you have already removed the CMOS battery for at least 30s, if you have, proceed below.

Look for something that says priority....Or maybe hard disks in that area. That is where we need the boot drive FIRST. If all else fails, send me what items are available in that boot menu.

In most bios settings, there are two items to be concerned about. First is what the computer sees normally set at:

CDRom - 1st
floppy - 2nd (if any)
Hard Drive - 3rd

Can you enter the bios setup menu and make sure in the Boot section under Hard Drive Priority, that the boot device is set FIRST in that area. Just make sure the hard drive that you need to boot from is set at the top of that list.

The second area tells WHAT hard drive(Name/ID) is seen first (boot drive) in the boot up process. That is the one I want you to be concerned about now.