New boot sectors after hd wipe

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Peekholes
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New boot sectors after hd wipe

#1 Post by Peekholes » Wed Nov 14, 2007 5:43 am

I used a one of the wipe programs on the boot cd to wipe a hd. Can someone tell me the process on how to get new boot sectors so I can reinstall xp on this hd. The hd is a toshiba laptop hard drive in a dell laptop.

Thanks

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#2 Post by Bullseye » Wed Nov 14, 2007 9:42 am

Put the XP OS CD in the drive and reboot. Follow the prompts to install windows...
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#3 Post by Peekholes » Wed Nov 14, 2007 9:55 am

I tried that and it starts loading the windows setup and then gives me this error.

File \i386\ntkrnlmp.exe could not be loaded.
The error code is 7

Setup cannot continue. Press any key to exit.

Any ideas?

Also this is a Dell Inspiron 9200 laptop.

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#4 Post by Victor Chew » Sat Nov 17, 2007 3:58 am

Sounds like your WinXP install CD is faulty. Do you have another one to try?

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#5 Post by Peekholes » Tue Nov 20, 2007 7:45 am

Yes I have two xp cd's. I have that came with my dell with sp2, and xp pro that I bought for my pc.

If I put in the xp pro from my desktop it starts the install process and then says:

File \i386\ntkrnlmp.exe could not be loaded.
The error code is 7

Setup cannot continue. Press any key to exit.


If I try the dell xp cd it says:

No boot sector on hard disk -
No bootable devices--strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility.

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#6 Post by Peekholes » Tue Nov 20, 2007 8:30 am

Well I'm trying something on the xp pro cd thats for my desk top. I went to the Recovery Console and created a partition by typing: diskpart

Then reboot with the xp cd and now it got my further into the setup and is reformatting. I will keep you posted keeping fingers crossed.

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