How To Fix Checking Media Presence On Windows 11

The message “Checking Media Presence” seems when the BIOS is checking for the Operating System (OS) on the network server. So, the issue is that your laptop is making an attempt to carry out a Network PXE boot as an alternative of booting into the storage device with the working system. 

It signifies that both the storage device isn’t the very best precedence boot device or the pc couldn’t discover the OS on the storage device and moved on to the PXE Network as the subsequent boot possibility.

Change Boot Order

First, you’ll want to be certain that the storage device with the OS is the highest boot precedence device, not the PXE Network. This means your laptop will boot into the OS device earlier than every other media.

1. Power up or restart your laptop. When you get to the producer’s emblem, press the BIOS key repeatedly as well to BIOS. If you don’t know the actual key, confer with official sources.
2. Here, seek for Boot Priority, Boot Order, or a associated possibility.
   
3. Move the Storage drive containing the OS is to the primary place on the precedence record. The BIOS interface itself ought to let you know how to change the record.
4. You may also take away the Network or PXE gadgets from the record or transfer them to the final.
5. Save the adjustments and exit BIOS.

Disable Network or PXE Boot

You may also disable the PXE Network boot altogether in order that your laptop by no means appears to be like for this boot possibility no matter the place it’s on the boot order record.

1. Get to the BIOS in your laptop.
2. Look for an possibility resembling IPv4 or IPv6 PXE Support, Network Boot, LAN PXE Boot. You will doubtless discover it contained in the Boot or Advanced tabs. 
3. Set the choice to Disabled.
   
4. Save and Exit the BIOS/UEFI.

Check Storage Drive

You also needs to see in case your laptop is definitely detecting the storage drive. In some BIOS setup utilities, you may examine for it within the boot precedence record itself. If not, you may see if the disk seems within the Main, Storage, or related tabs.

If it’s a SATA, NVMe, or M2 device, examine the message next to those choices.

Then, in case you have a {hardware} diagnostic program that you could run from the pre-boot setting, you need to examine the storage drive’s well being. Or, you may take away the storage drive out of your laptop and join it to a different laptop to see if there are any points with it. 

If the storage drive has no points, it signifies some corrupt boot or working system recordsdata. So you could restore these elements.

But if there are some points, you could have to interchange it altogether and set up a brand new OS on the brand new device.

Repair Boot Files

Depending on whether or not your storage disk operates in GPT (GUID Partition Table) or MBR (Master Boot Record), it shops the boot configuration recordsdata in a different way. So, you need to examine the disk sort after which use the right steps to restore the recordsdata.

1. First, create a USB Installation media on one other PC or different device.
2. Then, boot into this media and open Command Prompt. 
   • Insert the USB drive into the pc with the error and energy it up or restart it.
   • On a UEFI laptop, you’re going to get the press any key display screen. So, press something as well into the USB flash drive. On an MBR system, you could first set the USB to the highest of the boot precedence record.
   • After you see the language preferences, press Shift + F10 to open Command Prompt.
3. First, enter the next instructions to see in case your disk is GPT or MBR.
   • diskpart
   • record disk
   • exit
     
4. If the GPT part reveals ‘*’ for the disk, it’s a GPT disk, and if not, it’s an MBR disk.
5. Then, enter the next instructions under one after the other and press Enter relying on whether or not your disk is GPT or MBR.
6. On GPT:
   • diskpart
   • record disk (examine your OS disk’s quantity)
   • choose disk X (substitute X with the above disk quantity)
   • record quantity (notice down the id variety of FAT32 quantity whose data says System/Hidden)
   • choose quantity X (substitute X with the above quantity quantity)
   • assign letter = S: (You may also use another free alphabet)
     
   • exit
   • cd /d S:EFIMicrosoftBoot (make certain to vary drive letter S: appropriately)
   • bootrec /fixboot
   • bootrec /rebuildbcd
     
7. On MBR:
   • bootrec /fixmbr
   • bootrec /fixboot
   • bootrec /rebuildbcd
     
8. Exit the command immediate and restart Windows. Set the highest boot precedence to the OS device if crucial. 

Then, boot into the OS and see when you nonetheless encounter the above error. If you do, you’ll want to recreate the boot recordsdata. 

1. Boot into the USB set up device and get to Command Prompt.
2. Enter the next instructions in accordance with your disk sort.
3. For GPT:
   • diskpart
   • record disk
   • choose disk X
   • record quantity (notice the OS drive letter similar to the Info “Boot” whereas additionally in search of the required FAT32 quantity)
   • choose quantity X (substitute X with FAT32 quantity’s quantity)
   • assign letter = S:
   • exit
   • cd /d S:EFIMicrosoftBoot
   • ren BCD BCD.bak
   • bcdboot C:Windows /l en-us /s S: /f all (change C: to your OS drive letter, and S: to whichever letter you selected beforehand.)
   • bootrec /rebuildbcd
     
4. For MBR:
   • diskpart
   • record disk
   • choose disk X
   • record quantity (notice the quantity quantity by which the Info is ‘System’. Also, search for the OS drive letter, i.e., by which Info says ‘Boot’. Here, we use C:)
   • choose quantity X (substitute X with the above quantity)
   • assign letter = S:
   • exit
   • bootrec /fixmbr
   • bcdboot C:Windows /s S: (substitute C: and S: appropriately.)
     

If repairing boot recordsdata doesn’t work, your solely different is to utterly refresh your laptop by clear putting in the working system. First, back up all crucial knowledge by connecting the storage drive to a different laptop.