Canonical question on PXE/"no bootable device" errors, help us close the duplicates

Question

We get variations of what is essentially the same question all the time: the system doesn't start Windows, dropping to PXE boot and failing and/or throwing a "no bootable device" or similar error. The answer is the same nearly every time. We ought to collect all these questions and have one question to rule them all.

In the spirit of this earlier Meta question, I've posted a new canonical question aiming to cover all these cases. I intend to close all other questions of this kind as duplicates of this canonical question. If you have any suggestions on how to go about doing this, be sure to post them here.

Answer 1

One idea would be to use a custom SQL query with the SE Data Explorer tool, and the Compose Query option to do the searching part and bring you back a list of links to correlated questions.

You could search all questions where the title or body contains certain strings or phrases such as: "the system doesn't start Windows" "no bootable device", etc.

Custom Query Example

I didn't write this query for performance or per best practices so it's just give a quick and simple example of one method to go about helping you with the task of identifying potentially related questions to help speed up your process.

SELECT id as [Post Link], *
FROM Posts
WHERE
     (lower(Title) LIKE lower('%##Text##%')) OR
     (lower(Body) LIKE lower('%##Text##%')) AND
     PostTypeId = 1
ORDER BY CreationDate

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Data Explorer Example