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Hard drive crashed?
Okay so I have a DELL laptop (not the one I'm on right now) my parents got for me at the end of my 8th grade graduation (I'm a sophmore soon to be junior now) so this computer isnt very old. Anyway, whenever I try to turn the computer on this message comes up:
No boot sector on internal hard drive
No bootable devices--strike F2 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility
No F1 does nothing the message keeps showing up and I really don't know what to do when I get to the setup utility... anyone really good with computers want to explain to me what is going wrong with my computer? I need this computer to help me study for finals one and two it has EVERYTHING on it... has my hard drive crashed? any kind of help is greatly appreciated
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It has either become corrupted(fixable) or the drive broke(not fixable). If it's 4+ years old, it's probably permanently broken :(. If it's a newer computer, like it sounds, you can probably fix it, but it will delete all your data. If you have some very important data on there, I can walk you through a procedure that has a (very) small chance of getting your data back; IM me(info on column) if want to try that(you'll need a cd burner and some blank disks to do it). To make it work, but delete all your data, put your windows INSTALL disk(not recovery disk. The install disk will probably be extra shiny and have a bunch of windows logos on it) in the computer, and start it. When it's done loading, press enter, agree to the terms, and Delete all existing partitions. Tell it to install windows on the "unpartitioned space". Format it(not quick format). Then follow the instructions it gives you. Good luck!
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