When a computer cannot find an Operating System to boot the computer up with, it has no choice but to display a "no bootable device" (or similar) error message.
The first step would be to check the device (hard drive/SSD) containing the Operating System. If it appears to be working okay, the Operating System itself needs to be repaired ... so that the computer can boot it up.
Your cloud book has a solid state SSD, not a mechanical spinning hard drive. Re-installing Windows will have to do. Go download MS Media Creation Tool. Run it to Generate a Windows Setup USB memory stick. Boot with that and do Setup > Custom. Delete the C drive partition ( if there is more than 1 partition, you will have to tell which is C by it's size ). Then let setup continue with the unallocated space.
I've done that. But once I get to the partition stage it won't let me delete nor format none of them. It shows drive 0 partition 4 - 28.5 GB ( this one I get error- windows could not format a partition on disk 0. The error occurred while preparing the partition selected for installation error code- 0x80070057.
Drive 0 partition 3 - 16MB (error- windows can not be installed on this hard disk space. The partition is a Microsoft reserved (MSR) partition.
Drive 0 partition 2 - 99MB (error- windows cannot be installed to this hard disk space . The partition is an EFI system partition (ESP) )
Drive 0 partition 1 - 529MB (error- windows cannot be installed on this hard disk space. The partition is a Microsoft recovery partition.
I've done that. But once I get to the partition stage it won't let me delete nor format none of them. It shows drive 0 partition 4 - 28.5 GB ( this one I get error- windows could not format a partition on disk 0. The error occurred while preparing the partition selected for installation error code- 0x80070057.
Drive 0 partition 3 - 16MB (error- windows can not be installed on this hard disk space. The partition is a Microsoft reserved (MSR) partition.
Drive 0 partition 2 - 99MB (error- windows cannot be installed to this hard disk space . The partition is an EFI system partition (ESP) )
Drive 0 partition 1 - 529MB (error- windows cannot be installed on this hard disk space. The partition is a Microsoft recovery partition.
I've done this. But once I get to the partition stage it won't let me delete nor format none of them. It shows drive 0 partition 4 - 28.5 GB ( this one I get error- windows could not format a partition on disk 0. The error occurred while preparing the partition selected for installation error code- 0x80070057.
Drive 0 partition 3 - 16MB (error- windows can not be installed on this hard disk space. The partition is a Microsoft reserved (MSR) partition.
Drive 0 partition 2 - 99MB (error- windows cannot be installed to this hard disk space . The partition is an EFI system partition (ESP) )
Drive 0 partition 1 - 529MB (error- windows cannot be installed on this hard disk space. The partition is a Microsoft recovery partition.
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