Pxe-m0f no bootable drive device inserted

[bluekiwi]

Am working on my fathers laptop, toshiba satellite l655,
it keeps coming up with pxe-m0f no bootable device inserted upon startup and will not advance any farther.
The system has win 7 home premium
It can see the hdd.
I have tried burning a copy of win 7 home premium and the disc starts up and then the error spits out again.
Have removed and reinserted hdd.
have tried disc recovery/testing iso's and the system fails to read the discs
any ideas as to what is wrong, have an extra hdd on hand

 

[Solandri]

The PXE error is Intel's network boot failure message. The computer can't find a boot drive, so it's trying to boot off the network as a last resort (some businesses like to configure their computers to boot off a common network drive image). You're not set up for network boot so it is failing, and you're getting that message. So that error message isn't really telling you anything useful

This is a shot in the dark based on the computer being able to see the HDD but not boot off it. For many years Toshiba had a love affair with configuring its laptop HDDs as RAID even if the computer only had one drive. Try going into the BIOS settings and see if changing the SATA mode to RAID makes it bootable.

Being unable to boot off a Win 7 DVD could be a problem with the SATA interface (in which case the laptop is toast), or with the DVD drive. Try converting the Win 7 disk into a bootable flash drive, and see if you can get that to boot. (You will probably have to hold down F1 or F2 or F10 or F11 or F12 to get the boot device option menu, then pick the flash drive.)
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_install/how-do-i-make-a-bootable-windows-7-usb-flash-drive/24f499cc-7735-44d8-a8fa-324c13077977
http://visihow.com/Make_a_bootable_Windows_7_USB_flash_drive_installer

If you can get it to boot off the flash drive, try running a repair on the HDD. If it's unable to repair the HDD, as a last resort you can try manually recreating the boot info.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/32523/how-to-manually-repair-windows-7-boot-loader-problems

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

The "PXE" which appears on the screen means that the laptop is trying to boot through the network adapter because that's in the boot sequence, and because there's no bootable device anywhere else. You should try a new hard drive, I wouldn't try fixing existing one unless you want the same problem to keep occurring..

 

[bluekiwi]

The PXE error is Intel's network boot failure message. The computer can't find a boot drive, so it's trying to boot off the network as a last resort (some businesses like to configure their computers to boot off a common network drive image). You're not set up for network boot so it is failing, and you're getting that message. So that error message isn't really telling you anything useful

This is a shot in the dark based on the computer being able to see the HDD but not boot off it. For many years Toshiba had a love affair with configuring its laptop HDDs as RAID even if the computer only had one drive. Try going into the BIOS settings and see if changing the SATA mode to RAID makes it bootable.

Being unable to boot off a Win 7 DVD could be a problem with the SATA interface (in which case the laptop is toast), or with the DVD drive. Try converting the Win 7 disk into a bootable flash drive, and see if you can get that to boot. (You will probably have to hold down F1 or F2 or F10 or F11 or F12 to get the boot device option menu, then pick the flash drive.)
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_install/how-do-i-make-a-bootable-windows-7-usb-flash-drive/24f499cc-7735-44d8-a8fa-324c13077977
http://visihow.com/Make_a_bootable_Windows_7_USB_flash_drive_installer

If you can get it to boot off the flash drive, try running a repair on the HDD. If it's unable to repair the HDD, as a last resort you can try manually recreating the boot info.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/32523/how-to-manually-repair-windows-7-boot-loader-problems

been busy with work, made a bootable flash drive, changed boot order and now all I get in blank screen with flashing cursor, will not progress past that point

 

[Solandri]

made a bootable flash drive, changed boot order and now all I get in blank screen with flashing cursor, will not progress past that point

See if there's an option in the BIOS under advanced system settings for CSM boot (instead of UEFI).

 

[bluekiwi]

okay, resolved the issue. I made bootable usb with new copy of win 7, attempted to install to hdd, no go. Installed new hdd, still unable to boot from cd/dvd drive, used boot usn, installed win 7 to new drive and am good to go. Unsure of why it would not boot from cd/dvd drive, attempted different disk after new drive up and running and cd/dvd drive works, and boot disk worked on different computer. oh well, whatever