Solved Mint 22 on a portable drive "No Boot Disk" after restoring PC to an earlier state.

[Brian Alex]

Mint 22 on a potable SSD. Used to work fine. Unplug the Windows 10 SSD, plug in the Mint SSD and lt was very good. Then I got the wild idea to use a Macrium back-up from 2016 just to see the old files and pictures that I had lost somehow. All went great but now my Mint SSD returns the following on attempted boot "Error; no boot disk has been detected or disk has failed". I wonder what setting has changed that prevents the Bios from recognizing this OS. Should I try to make a new copy? Or is there a simple setting I can investigate. Thanks! -BA (novice)

HP P62220t Core i5 3570, 8 GB DDR3, Radeon RX 460, Win 10

 

[FullScale4Me]

There is an application Boot Repair on the Linux Mint boot USB. See "How To: Repair a Broken Bootloader" in the Tutorials subsection of forums DOT linuxmint DOT com Or post the pastebin link here after running "Create a Bootinfo summary".

 

[Brian Alex]

Thanks. Will check it out.

 

[Brickwizard]

Macrium back-up

Macrim is a back-up/repair product for windows, It is possible it has messed with your UEFI settings check windows quick start is still disabled, check the USB settings and check the boot settings, also if you had your Linux plugged in at the same time , it may have fouled up the boot /grub

 

[kc1di]

I also would say your backup program has overwritten the linux boot partition some how. Check to make sure your UEFI partition is still there.

 

[Brian Alex]

OK, Got it sorted. Restored my pc to Jan.2025 and reinstalled Mint on the SSD. All good. Even dual booting with Mint22/Ubuntu 24.04 now. Thanks guys. -BA

 

[wizardfromoz]

Congratulations on the good outcome.

When you are sure this is solved, you can mark it as such by going to your first post, and do as follows

Near bottom left of the post click Edit - (No Prefix) - Solved

Cheers

Wizard

 

[bob466]

Macrium free...I remember using it in windoze back in the old days long before Timeshift and Foxclone.

When I first switched to Linux...I found nothing that would create an image except that useless clonezilla. I discovered I could use Macrium to create an image of my Linux system even when it had a windoze PE.

Then Foxclone came a long and the rest is history. About two years ago I got out my Macrium free 7 DVD Disk and tried to create an image of Mint...it wouldn't work because my system was now UEFI.

As Macrium no longer has a free version...you would have to buy the paid version in the hope it might work...Ha Ha Ha.