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✴️ My laptop died with a “Default Boot Device Missing or Boot Failed” error. Here's the process I went through to resurrect it.
✴️ Boot device missing
When my laptop failed to boot, I:
* CBooted from external media to see if the machine was working at all.
* Removed and tested the machine’s SSD to see whether it or the motherboard had failed.
* Replaced the SSD and reinstalled Windows.
* Though there was no data loss, restoring an image backup would have been faster than reinstalling.
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0:00 Default boot device missing or boot failed
0:20 This is just one scenario
2:00 Worst possible timing
2:25 Initial attempts
5:32 The world inside the computer
7:00 Replacement
9:19 Where was my image backup?
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