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He did, but to get it to work I just tried several OS-disk I had laying around, and the one that worked was Ubuntu. So I installed it and formated the HDD, then added Win7.

Thanks! Actually quite satisfied with the result, saving up to get a RAID-card and the hard drives atm... ^_^

Update: Seems like everything is working as it should now. I just tried to install Ubuntu from a DVD-disk, after that the PC recognized the HDD. SUCCESS!!

Update: I downloaded Ubuntu and burned the ISO-file to a DVD-disk... The PC recognizes the disk and is installing to the HDD at the moment.

You, my good sir, has got it! That is exactly what the problem is!

Great suggestion, I'm going to try that now...

I've tried to boot from several drives, but nothing works... The HDD is fine, tried to boot from it on another PC and it worked great. Have also tried to boot from a CD, also that was a failure.

Because his PC will not recognize that there are any drives in the PC, so I'm stuck in a infinite loop of powering on and off the PC

The PC has space to hold two drives, and I've tried to put the HDD in both of those... But nothing happens. If I just found a way to access the BIOS I think I can get the PC booting right. But thats the problem, I can't access the BIOS...

This is what happens: *Press the start button* ----- Acer logo ----- "No Bootable Device, Hit any key." ----- *Press a key* ----- "Select a boot device" GARGH FRUSTRATED! I am pressing the F2-button on the keyboard when the Acer logo is displayed, but nothing happens... Ergo, I can't access the bios to change boot order so that the PC has something to boot to (don't know what it is set to boot to, possibly the DVD-drive).

Thanks! Did my best.

I've tried to smash almost every button... I know that the button to access the BIOS is F2

I've tried to format the disk multiple times (also tried with several other drives), but the problems seems to be that the bios is locked.

So I was going to help a friend out with his new Acer Aspire V3-771G by uninstall Windows 8 and add Windows 7. I had to remove the HDD and add it to my personal laptop to format it and add the OS. When I tried to put the HDD into the Acer again, the message "No Bootable Device, Hit any key." shows up... I know how to fix this particular problem, but I need to enter the BIOS to fix this. The problem is that I can't enter the BIOS to change the boot-order. I've tried to press F2 on startup like a maniac but nothing works. Anyone out there that has a workaround to access the BIOS when this problem happens? Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks! The biggest button on the front of the case is wired to be a power button, and the little button is wired to be a reset switch.