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Name: jessbyrd00
Date: February 24, 2009 at 22:25:05 Pacific
OS: Windows Xp Pro
Subcategory: General
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I have a laptop that was recently "wiped" with Drive scrubber. How do I start with a fresh system? Anything would help me here. What I am getting is a black screen that says:"No boot sector on hard disk- No bootable devices--strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility". PLEASE HELP!!!!!



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Name: stephenturns
Date: February 24, 2009 at 23:15:39 Pacific
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If you completly wipped your hard drive with drive scrubber then all the information is gone - gone for good. The MBR, all your partition info - gone.

Your gonna have to do a clean install of XP again. Boot your xp disk and start the installation process.

Click here for help installing windows.

Good luck.


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