"Press any key to boot from disc" error Windows 7

I've searched the forum, but none of it seems to help. I tried external usb keyboard, it restarts the whole installation. I had no option to choose between fat32 or NTFS. I was trying to partition a 50 gb on 500 gb hdd.
Is there any solution to this?

I'm having trouble installing Windows 7. And found this article
http://www.product-reviews.net/2009/10/23/apples-boot-camp-windows-7-unsupported -on-some-macs/
does anyone have any idea if and when Apple will support windows 7 for the these late 2006 model macs.....

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Accidently shut down my Mac Book Pro during Windows 7 installation . When re-starting it says "Press any key to boot from CD or DVD". But keybord is not working . and i have the windows CD inside the drive . Pls hlp me to boot the mac again .

I have accidently shut down my Mac Book Pro during windows 7 installation . When I re started it it began to say " Press any key to boot from CD or DVD " but the keyboard is not working . So I cannot boot It and the CD is also in the drive . Please help me to boot back to Mac book Pro and give me a way to start the key bord .

Hey rudreshchoubey,
Thanks for the question. The following resource may help to resolve your issue:
Boot Camp Installation & Setup Guide
http://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1636/en_US/boot_camp_install-setup_ 10.8.pdf
If Windows doesn’t install properly
Verify that you’re using an original, full version of the 64-bit version of Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows 8, or Windows 8 Pro.
Restart your Mac and hold down the Option key until one or more disk icons appear on your screen. Insert the Windows installation disc into the optical drive or insert the USB flash drive with Windows into a USB port on your Mac. Select the Windows installation disk icon, then click the arrow beneath it. Quickly press any key on your keyboard to start the installer. Follow the onscreen instructions to repair or reinstall Windows.
Thanks,
Matt M.

Press any key to boot from cd

Every time I start my computer it will automatically go to a black screen saying press any key to boot from cd. When I hit a key nothing happnes. If I start the computer and hit the option key and then select MAC the computer will start. I think this is a boot camp problem because this problem started when I tried to install a windows 7 64 bit (my computer only supports 32 bit) on my computer through boot camp. I now have a fully licensed windows 7 and I'm trying to install it but when I start the computer and press option and hit the windows 7 start up disk nothing will happen.

Kyle,
Sounds as though a do-over is in order. But first, you'll have to make OS X the default in the boot menu.
To return to Mac OS X and make it the default:
Hold the Option key at startup, to bring up the boot menu.
Hold the Control key. The straight selection arrow will change to a wrap-around arrow, indicating a "persistent boot"
While holding this key, click your OS X volume,
Let go of the Control key
Mac OS X will now be the default.
Start the Boot Camp Assistant, restore the original volume, restart, and try again. Read the Installation and Setup Guide carefully this time through. If you have further problems, post your experience in a new topic, as it is likely your issues will be somewhat different.
Nate

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I am unable to install windows xp service pack 3 or windows 7 on to my iMac running latest boot camp installer. I can start the installation process, but when windows installer completes copying all the files on to the boot camp partition and reboots the system I get stuck at this message "PRESS ANY KEY TO BOOT FROM A CD OR DVD", which won't go away even if I wait for 10-15 minutes. To get rid of this I have to hard reset the iMac by pressing the power button for a few seconds and then boot into Mac HD using the option key.
Please advise if I need to tweak some settings to complete the installation or if you need more information to resolve this issue. Thanks!

I was able to complete the installation process by formatting the windows bootcamp partition through windows installer (and not using Mac disk utility to format the partition into NTFS format). Hope this helps someone.

MSI NF980-G65 freezes when trying to boot from disc

I just recently purchased and received an MSI NF980-G65 motherboard to work with my AMD Phenom II x6 1055T, but sadly I have had nothing but trouble.
So far the motherboard posts its bios and has the ability to detect any (and all) of my hard drives when I have them plugged in. The hard drive that has Windows installed on it currently informs me that I need to put in my Windows disc and run the repair utility, which makes sense since I was using a completely different motherboard and CPU before.
It is when I try to press any key to boot from disc that the problem arises. When I press a key on my keyboard while that prompt is on screen, the cursor jumps as if I had hit the tab key and does nothing further.
I have a total of three copies of Windows 7 at my disposal to use, two are DVDs I had burned from using my student discount to get them, and one set (32-bit and 64-bit) were in a retail copy of home premium, all of the discs performed the same action. I had tried using different SATA cables, different power adapters, and even different DVD players to try and remedy the situation.
The hard drive with windows is an IDE hard drive, but I have tried my other SATA hard drives just to be sure, none of which fixed the problem.
I have heard briefly about m-flash, but as far as I can tell, it would appear this new motherboard did come with the latest bios version (1.4).

For the boot, I have tried both setting up the DVD player as the initial boot, and I have tried just selecting it in the boot menu.
As per the posting guide, here are more specific information:
Processor: AMD Phenom II X6 2.8 GHz, 9.0 MB Total Cache, AM3 Socket
Motherboard: MSI NF980-G65 v. 1.2 bios (I'm going to try and flash this to a later now, I didn't know where to look for it before) , 601-7612-010B1004183389
RAM: G. Skill Ripjaw DDR3-1600 PC3-12800 2gb x 1 until I get this working, then it will be x4
Power Supply: Tagan BZ Series 700W
DVD: Samsung SH-S223 DVD burner with Lightscribe
HDD: Western Digital 250GB IDE drive

Satellite C650D-12C No bootable device - Insert boot disk & press any key

Hi,
I have a C650D that was working fine up to a week ago.
It shut down ok, but refused to start up on the next boot.
It comes up saying 'No bootable device -- Insert boot disk & press any key'.
So I stuck in a bootable recovery dvd and the same thing came up, but although the dvd drive 'twitched' when I inserted the disk, it didn't seem to look at it at all when I rebooted.
I rebooted again & pressed F12 to check the boot order. 1st is usb, then cd/dvd, lan, fdd, then hdd/ssd.
I selected cd/dvd and after a few seconds' wait it said 'A disk read error occurred. Press ctrl+alt+del to restart.
Both the harddrive & the dvd drive show up correctly in the bios.
I plugged in a usb dvd drive, put in a recovery cd, rebooted & it started to boot from the usb drive, but then stopped doing anything after the first bit of info came up on the screen.
I tried several bootable cds and they all do the same. They start booting, then freeze. For example, if I put in an XP install disk I get - 'Press any key to boot from cd drive' (the usb one), then 'Setup is inspecting your hardware', then a black screen.
I've tried changing anything that might help in the bios, SATA controller mode, for example, but nothing has any effect on the situation.
Any ideas anyone please?
Many thanks.
EDIT:
I just tried booting from the usb drive with the harddrive removed from the system and the boot process continues normally. If I try & boot from the internal dvd drive though it still fails to see any disk.........

> I just tried booting from the usb drive with the harddrive removed from the system and the boot process continues normally. If I try & boot from the internal dvd drive though it still fails to see any disk.........
Does this mean that if you remove the HDD you can boot from the USB flash drive, but you cannot boot from CD/DVD drive even if the HDD is removed?
It sounds really strange but I think this would mean that either the SATA controller on the motherboard is faulty and therefore its not possible to boot from HDD or CD/DVD drive. Or it could be also possible that HDD and ODD malfunctions. But it would be really strange that both devices would start to malfunction at the same time
So possibly the second idea is not true however, this would mean that something happened to the motherboard.
But try this: access the BIOS pressing F2 at the beginning. Now set it to default settings pressing F9 and then save the changes pressing F10.
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HP Pavilion g6-2330dx. "No Boot Device. Insert boot disk and press any key" Memory test failed

Hi. So I am trying to help a friend with her laptop. It's a HP Pavilion g6-2330dx.
Product #: D1C01UA#ABA
Serial #: [Personal Information Removed]
Windows 8
ADATA 4GB RAM
Toshiba 640GB HDD from the looks of it.
The laptop is unable to boot into Windows, so I suspect the hard drive. But I ran the hard drive test and it passed all the tests. The SMART test and both the short and long test. I ran the tests multiple times and it passed each time. I tried reseating the hard drive and still no go. I also removed the HDD and connected it to my desktop PC to see if it detects and it did. Ran the Windows 7 own HDD test and it passed.
Currently, there doesnt seem to be any operating system at all on the HDD. When I check, there is a C: drive of ~90GB partition that is ~90GB free, but inside there are Windows files/folders. There is also a D: drive Recovery partition that says ~26GB with only ~2GB free, but when I go inside there's only ~350MB worth of data.
So then I ran the memory test (in BIOS) and it failed immediately. I reseated the RAM module. I tried the other slot. It still failed. So is it safe to say the memory is the cause of this problem?
Pressing the F11 key that is supposed to take me to the System Recovery only leads me back to the black screen with "No Boot Device. Insert boot disk and press any key"
I even tried to install Windows 7 to see if it'll work. I was able to get the laptop to boot/read off the Windows 7. But when I click to install, it asks for a boot device driver or something like that.
My friend doesn't have the recovery disk either. I guess she lost it.
Anyway, is it as simple as replacing the memory or could it actually be the HDD (even though it passes)?
EDIT: This is what the System Log in BIOS says
0021           Time: 10/13/2014
03F0           Time: 10/13/2014
03F0           Time: 10/13/2014
The date was the first time I ran the tests. I havent received those numbers (error codes?) since.
EDIT: Just for kicks, I ran Memtest 2.11 just now (forgot I had the disc) and it immediately went red with thousands of errors, hah.

Hi bghs,
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I understand that you were unable to boot into Windows, and you suspected the hard drive and tested it, but it passed both short and long test. With that being said and the fact that it also passed leads me to believe the hard drive is fine.
You tested the memory and it failed. You tried reseating and swapping slots but they still failed the test.
I would test each card individual with the memtest to determine if it is just one or both cards that have an issue.
When you installed it in another computer, you did see the recovery partition. Once the memory issue is resolved, if you are still unable to boot into Windows, I suggest you do a recovery with the minimized image.   Here is a link to Performing an HP System Recovery (Windows 8) to assist you with that process.
I hope this helps.
Sparkles1
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OS X Mavericks- Erase and reinstall OS X
OS X Mountain Lion- Erase and reinstall OS X
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Last month I just got a HP netbook (HP Mini 110-3100) and when I got it from the box, the error message; "No bootable device -- insert a boot disk and press any key" appeared. But then I managed to boot up the netbook normally. After that, I can use the netbook normally but the error message keeps appeared and becomes more frequent and now I even cannot turn on the netbook.
Is it a hard disk failure?
p/s: yesterday accidentally I can turn on the netbook without any problems. Did a lot of Hard Disk Maintenance by some softwares downloaded from the internet. But now already cannot turn on.
p/s/s: i have no cd/dvd drive, and also no 8GB usb drive.
p/s/s/s: what should i bring if i want to send the netbook to the HP centre? just bring the netbook?

I would suggest try and reseat the hard drive and check...If you still have the issue, than take it to the service center...And you will need to take only netbook to Service center...
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No bootable device -- insert boot disc and press any key

Hello, I'm trying to install Windows 7 on BootCamp. I have iMac 2010. My CD-ROM is broken, i can't put CD into it. So, i use external CD-ROM. I burned DVD with windows 7 ISO file, started BootCamp Assistant, My computer restarted and then i have black screen with "No bootable device -- insert boot disc and press any key
So i can't continue installing Windows. On Mac os DVD is visible and everything is OK, but when restarting - i cant boot from it. How to install it?
Thank you.

hrsrt wrote:
I burned DVD with windows 7 ISO file
Just burning a ISO onto a DVD wont make the DVD bootable.
Look here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977640
Lupunus

The MAC OSX v10.4 just comes up with the grey apple which alternates with ?. Tried pressing "apple key" S. Black screen appears Error Loading Drivers. No discs. Any ideas?

My son has been deleting files. Now when he turns on the MAC OSX v10.4 it just comes up with the grey apple keywhich alternates with a NO ENTRY symbo and ? symbol. Tried pressing "apple key" S. Black screen appears Error Loading Drivers.
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"No Bootable Device -- Insert Boot Disk and Press Any Key" ~ Bootcamp Error

We have a Mac Mini with both Mac OSX and Windows 7 installed on the Bootcamp partition. It's all been working fine since we installed them a few weeks ago, and we've been able to use both areas without any problems.
However, we just tried to load the Windows partition and it came up with the error message: "No Bootable Device -- Insert Boot Disk and Press Any Key". Does anybody know why this is happening as it is the first time this message has come up in a few months, and my dad is seriously ****** off right now because he has work to do on the Windows area. :/
Also, someone told me that I had to install Windows again. If this is the case, will all of the files on it be safe? If not, that's not an option.
Thanks for your time,
Tom.

We have a Mac Mini with both Mac OSX and Windows 7 installed on the Bootcamp partition. It's all been working fine since we installed them a few weeks ago, and we've been able to use both areas without any problems.
However, we just tried to load the Windows partition and it came up with the error message: "No Bootable Device -- Insert Boot Disk and Press Any Key". Does anybody know why this is happening as it is the first time this message has come up in a few months, and my dad is seriously ****** off right now because he has work to do on the Windows area. :/
Also, someone told me that I had to install Windows again. If this is the case, will all of the files on it be safe? If not, that's not an option.
Thanks for your time,
Tom.

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Hi everybody,
It seems that I triggered a bootcamp "bug" that involve the malfunction of the partition hierarchy after the creation of a new partition.
After some work I managed to get back again bootcamp in bootable partitions choice window, but if i select it and reboot the system
i get this error:
No bootable device --- insert boot disk and press any key
I think something is wrong with the assignment of the bootable partition, maybe is looking for windows in the wrong partition.
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OSX 10.10.1
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I have an ISO image and I burned it to a dvd. I know how to boot back into my Macintosh HD. I just need help on finishing the Windows install. On my iMac it says I have a partition named BOOTCAMP.

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As the topic says, i am trying to install windows from a usb drive, when i click install windows and the computer reboots to install a black screen comes up with "no bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key" the USB drive is inserted and pressing any key does nothing. Help?

You need to follow these guides to install from USB drive
http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-install-windows-7vista-from-usb-drive-detailed -100-working-guide/
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ok i get this error when hooking my dvd drive up and tring to use my windows 7 cdNo Bootable device. Insert boot disk and press any key. i have tried to use command key i see the cd icon and hit that and i get the error

Wiley207 wrote:
Believe it or not, it was the FireWire drive that was the problem! I managed to successfully install Windows 7 using an external USB DVD drive!
Well I am truly staggered, I have tried this on two different MacBook Pros, with three different external USB optical drives. Don't know if you googled as I suggested but you would find hundreds of others who have found same thing. The exception is MacBook Air which works with the Apple writer, but I don't know much about this.
Were you doing any of the special workarounds with refedit etc?
What model USB DVD drive?

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