No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key

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  1. cultivate, Nov 22, 2009

    cultivate macrumors newbie

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    I've had my macbook pro for about to month now. I've had not problems with it until today.

    Every time my computer is restart I get the message "No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key" I have to restart hold down the option key to select my hard drive...

    How do I get rid of this message?
     
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  2. r.j.s, Nov 22, 2009

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    System Preferences > Startup Disk ... choose your HDD.
     
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  3. cultivate, Nov 22, 2009

    cultivate thread starter macrumors newbie

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    Thanks that seemed to do the trick... any idea why it might have be doing this?
     
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  4. r.j.s, Nov 22, 2009

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    Somehow the startup disk got set wrong. Not sure how, Boot Camp changes the startup disk, as can some other things.
     
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