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Go to SolutionRemove 'Hard Drive not Found.' warning message and continue booting
I was having fan issues and loaded the defaults for the bios. Now, when it boots it stops at this message:
"Alert! Hard Drive not found.
To Continue press F1 Key" etc etc etc
I am booting into Unraid from an internal USB drive. Once I press F1 it continues fine and boots into the USB Unraid OS. I cannot find in the bios or elsewhere how to disable that message so it can boot without keyboard intervention. Any ideas? It wasn't doing this before. Also, my boot order in the bios only lists the USB Drive, nothing else.
Thanks,
me.myself.i
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Posted January 24th, 2023 19:00
Boot with F12. What options do you see?
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Posted January 24th, 2023 21:00
This may resolve your issue:
Solved: how to avoid "press f1 to continue" during boot on PowerEdge T300 - Dell Community
Well now this is getting dumb. I was able to get into the F5 diags, F12 wouldnt work. In there I chose to exit and got the Legacy boot menu and moved the USB to the top. Saved, exit and then it only powers on to a blank screen with the 1-2-3 lit up. I followed the proceedure to remove the battery and reset the bios and nada. Nothing, still black screen. I dont know what to do now.
Not sure if serious but is just my luck :). It was in legacy with secure boot turned off. I turned it on, at the hdd warning I pressed f5 and let the diags run. Then when I exited it showed me the boot menu and I was able to move the usb drive to the top. Saved and then nada on the next boot. Pull everything and still nothing. Thanks again. It is a precision t7610
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Posted January 25th, 2023 14:00
Sounds serious! Which Precision model are you using? Do you recall if your BIOS was in Legacy or in UEFI mode before this happened? Was secure boot on or off?
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Posted January 25th, 2023 17:00
As a last resort, read the following link.....it may (or may not) help. Dell does have a BIOS Recovery Tool for computers built after December 2015, but your T7610 is almost certainly earlier than that. Fingers crossed.
https://www.dell.com/community/Precision-Fixed-Workstations/T7610-Bios-reset/td-p/6059190
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Posted January 25th, 2023 14:00
Secure boot is probably to blame, but I have no idea how to turn it off without a good BIOS. Flashing the BIOS should help, but you need access to F12 to do this from a USB stick.