It's obvious that replacing the hard disk by a SSD is not the obvious way to remove a virus. So it's really unclear what the issue was and what they did and why they did it. But the message surely looks like it is caused by a hardware issue.
The whole paragraph about what you tried doesn't make much sense. Did you try this before you brought it to the shop of after it returned? And what was the outcome of these actions?
Then, it's your own choice to have it repaired for free under warranty (which would take a month), or to pay some shop $200 for fixing it in 2 days.
Kees
I turn on my laptop, it boots up fine.....then 2 hours later I want to check my bank statement, and my laptop reads
Check Media [Fail]
Check Media [Fail]
No Boot device found
I have an Inspiron 15-3521, running Windows 8.
I was told it was a virus, but because I don't know a lot about computers, because I don't trust myself following youtube tutorials from people who I don't know from Adam, and because Dell's Technical Support warned me it could take up to 25 days to ship, fix and return my laptop (it was under warranty for another 3 months), I took it to the store that sold it to me. The store told me it was a virus, but I found that a little suspicious, but again I don't consider myself to be near expert enough to challenge such claims. On the contrary. $200 later and a SSD installation later, I have a working laptop.
I sort of feel like I was screwed out of more money than I needed to pay, but I am just not confident with these things and there really wasnt anyplace around to give me a 2nd opinion. All my friends who study computers said they either were not skilled in that area of computers or "I would really need to see it for myself". Who knows when they'd get around to helping.
I tried the following
Changing boot settings
Running a pre-bootassessment (the original HDD was being recognized by my comp)
Uninstalling and reinstalling the original HDD
My laptop did not come with a Windows OS disc, so I figured out that was the likely scenario, but the shop told me "you never got a disc, we sell these laptops, so we can tell you with confidence they dont come with OS discs, it is programmed in".
I just want to get to the bottom of this, I want to fix this problem myself later, to not have to pay $200 in maintenance for a laptop that only cost me $380 without tax.
Thanks all.

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