Why is my laptop asking for a boot device?

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Toshiba Satellite C55-B5200

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My Toshiba laptop updated Windows Updates and did a restart. Now it will not boot up. Keeps asking for a boot device.

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Augustine @salmonjapan Rep: 16.3k 11 17 19 · Answer 1 · 2017-09-16T18:46:24-07:00

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Hi @carmi01, suggest you access your laptop BIOS and check if the Hard Disk is detected.

If the hard disk is detected, proceed to test your HDD.

Some possibility is either the OS update caused it to be corrupted or HDD might be failing

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Sina Rakhshani @updato Rep: 31 1 · Answer 2 · 2017-09-16T20:13:14-07:00

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Try to reinstall Windows it will be Fixed.

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