recently purchased dell latitude c600 laptop

**gottaquestion** · August 28th, 2009, 04:47 PM

I just purchased a dell laptop off of ebay. When I turn it on, the computer gives me the message "no bootable devices strike f1 to retry or f2 for setup utility". I'm technologically challenged, but does this mean that I need to load the Windows software?

**Jarhed7276** · August 28th, 2009, 05:10 PM

Hi gottaquestion. Welcome to TechIMO.

That message could mean one of several things:

1. Windows needs to be laoded
2. There is no hard drive
3. The hard drive is bad
4. A loose connection at the hard drive

Boot it up and press F2 for set up utility and see if a hard drive is detected.

**stroyal** · August 28th, 2009, 05:24 PM

It could also mean the hard drive is not partitioned, and I think you get that message if it is not formatted also

Edit: never mind

I take it back, I just checked and no partition gets a different 3 part message.
No format gets no message on the old dell I tried.