I have a Toshiba Satellite C55-B5299 that I put a 120G PNY CS1111 in and installed Mint 17.1. The live usb ran fine but after installing to the hdd and rebooting I get "Reboot and select proper Boot Device or instert boot medea in selected boot device and press a key"

I figured the Toshiba had a problem reading the PNY so I installed Mint to a 64g USB from a live USB only to get the same problem when rebooting after installing to that device.

This leads me to believe that the issue is with the Toshiba. Has anyone heard of this?

Thanks
K

Did you install in UEFI or Legacy mode?

Legacy I presume. I do not know what UEFI is.

Also, I have the bios set to boot from the USB.

Did you set the "boot" flag on one of the primary partitions ?. Not needed by grub, but some BIOS check for it.

Did you accept the defaults during the installation? Which option to install did you use? On a computer with no OS such as you describe, the defaults should have worked, install the Grub code to the MBR if you are not using UEFI.

I put Toshiba Satellite C55-B5299 in google, found a thread where owners of this model were complaining UEFI cannot be turned off.

If this is indeed true, then UEFI REQUIRES the first partition be of a EFI boot partition type. Should be around 200 MB. This is where the bootloader (grub) gets installed in order to boot up the OS. If Emerson is correct in his findings, then I dare say this is the reason the new drive isn't booting.

Here you go. Some owners managed to do it, some complain there is no CSM mode. Not exactly same model, though.

Emerson - Thanks for the link. I read through it and was able to switch from UEFI to CSM in the bois. Unfortunately, after 4 pages that post was never resolved.

During boot I now get...

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Intel UNDI, PXW-2.1 (build 083)
Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Intel Corporation

This product is covered by one or more of the following patents:
.....not typing all of them....

Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller Series v1.34 (10/07/13)
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable

PXE-M0fL Exiting PXW ROM.

Reboot and Select proper Boot device
or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key
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After switching the bios from UEFI to CSM I have the bois selected to boot from "HDD/SDD" and "USB" but neither are working. The above error message was during the CSM boot sequence.

If you go into BIOS and go to the info page, does it even SEE that you have a hard drive installed?

No, but it does not show what usb is in there either.

Well, that's why it's not able to boot from it, it's not seeing it. Do you have another hard drive to test to make sure your controller isn't dead?

Yes, its boots from the original windows hdd and the live usb.

Do you have access to another laptop or a USB adapter (preferred) to test that hard drive? Sounds like there might be something wrong with the new drive.

I installed the hdd into a different laptop and the bios was able to see it but not boot from it. If these laptops are not 64-bit could this be the cause?