Hi again got a quick question regarding my laptop which is a Dell E7450.
I dropped my laptop yesterday and it no longer starts up. When i turn on the laptop i get to the screen where it tells me that there is "no boot device found"
Then i have options such as,
press F1 to retry boot (or somewhere along those lines).
press F2 to enter bios
press F5 to run diagnostic test (Dell comes with a built in diagnostics tool).
Ive tried everything possible within the bios, everything points to my SSD being faulty, even the diagnostic tool fails to find the hard drive. Ive also taken the opertunity of installing the SSD into my main pc to see if my computer recognises it or not. My main pc did not find it so im pretty sure the SSD must be dead.
Now that the back story is out of the way, my question is, Can i insert a 64Gb usb storage device and attempt to reinstall a fresh copy of Win 7? Btw i have tried this but once i get to the point where windows 7 attempts to locate storage to install on, the usb device does not appear and im prompted to provide suitable storage before i can proceed.
I have read up quite a bit on whether or not this is possible but google seems to provide more info on creating a bootable win 7 usb rather than telling me if this is possible to use as a main drive. If this option is not possible would an external hard drive do the trick for me instead?
This is all temporary until i get hold of a new ssd btw, but would be nice to know if i can work around that for a week.
Thank you all in advance, any tips would be greatly appreciated. My apologies for the long read.
I dropped my laptop yesterday and it no longer starts up. When i turn on the laptop i get to the screen where it tells me that there is "no boot device found"
Then i have options such as,
press F1 to retry boot (or somewhere along those lines).
press F2 to enter bios
press F5 to run diagnostic test (Dell comes with a built in diagnostics tool).
Ive tried everything possible within the bios, everything points to my SSD being faulty, even the diagnostic tool fails to find the hard drive. Ive also taken the opertunity of installing the SSD into my main pc to see if my computer recognises it or not. My main pc did not find it so im pretty sure the SSD must be dead.
Now that the back story is out of the way, my question is, Can i insert a 64Gb usb storage device and attempt to reinstall a fresh copy of Win 7? Btw i have tried this but once i get to the point where windows 7 attempts to locate storage to install on, the usb device does not appear and im prompted to provide suitable storage before i can proceed.
I have read up quite a bit on whether or not this is possible but google seems to provide more info on creating a bootable win 7 usb rather than telling me if this is possible to use as a main drive. If this option is not possible would an external hard drive do the trick for me instead?
This is all temporary until i get hold of a new ssd btw, but would be nice to know if i can work around that for a week.
Thank you all in advance, any tips would be greatly appreciated. My apologies for the long read.