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No boot sectors on the hard disk

I recently bought a Dell Latitude laptop with no operating system. I have a windows xp disc but when I hit F12 it still gives me the message "No boot sectors on the hard disk". Why won't it load the operating system?

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  • youngbunch5 Aug 27, 2009

    I did that and still get same message.

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When the system is booting up hit whatever function key it states to enter the system bios. (it might be f11 or f8 on that model). In the system startup option choose, boot from cd drive first. Then enter the OS cd in the drive and restart the computer. Follow on screen instructions after that. Don't forget to reset boot order after installing OS.

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    disconnect the hard drive and restart the computer. and proceed with the previous instructions. Once you set up the boot order, reconnect the hard drive.

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You need the BOOT selection option and then pint it to the cdrom drive that has your windows in it and take it from there

  • Anonymous Aug 27, 2009

    Get into the bios and make sure a hard drive is listed.

    If not you have another issue !



    If it is then insert th cd into the drive and then while you are still in bios set it to boot first from cd. then save and exit



    Now do a restart and it should go straight into windows setup providing your windows disk is genuine. Many pirate copies of windows will not boot properly.



    If you could not find a drive in the bios then either the drive has a problem or the motherboard



    A quick way to check is to remove the drive and place it in a suitable 2/5" enclosure and hook it up to a PC. If you can see it and it works your problem is on the motherboard. If you cant get it to work from a PC the drive is dead.

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