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No Bootable Device

Thursday September 10, 2015

Lately my PC (Windows 8.1) randomly ran into a problem and needed to restart. After the restart I get the message:

No Bootable Device
Strike the F1 key to retry boot, F2 to run the setup utility

F1 doesn’t help, but turning the PC off and on again does help and the PC starts again. I get this problem ones in a while.

One of the possible solutions to this problem is to search for corrupt files with SFC:

  1. Open Command Prompt (Admin)
  2. Run: sfc /scannow
  3. restart PC

SFC Scannow

After the restart I still had some corrupt files. You can filter the log (C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\cbs.log) with this CMD command:

  1. findstr /c:”[SR]” %windir%\Logs\CBS\CBS.log >”%userprofile%\
    Desktop\sfcdetails.txt”

Than I found corrupt files like these:

Cannot repair member file [l:24{12}]”sppc.dll.mui” of Microsoft-Windows-Security-SPP-Client.Resources, Version = 6.3.9600.16384, pA = PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE_INTEL (0), Culture = [l:10{5}]”en-US”, VersionScope = 1 nonSxS, PublicKeyToken = {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35}, Type neutral, TypeName neutral, PublicKey neutral in the store, hash mismatch

Because these files where not altered after the Windows install, it turned out I had to repair my Windows image file where the sfc scan is checked upon, this can be done with the CMD command:

  1. Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth
  2. Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

After the image repair the system scan (sfc /scannow) had a verification 100% complete with no corrupt files.

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