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Dell Inspiron N7010 Windows 7 Home Premium
I partitioned enough of my hard drive to put SUSE Linux 11 in. That worked fine. I then decide to use virtual box to load SLES11 into. So I then delete SLES11 partition and now when I turn on laptop I get:
Check cable connection!
PXE-M0F: Existing Intel PXE ROM.
Operating System not found
I need a little help, laptop is only a month or so old and I need it for class.
HELP?!
ieee488
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April 21st, 2011 08:00
Deleted the SUSE Linux how?
Do you still get the GRUB screen to let you choose which OS to boot into?
tlawrence
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April 21st, 2011 10:00
Yeah I used GRUB to select which OS.
I booted into WIN7/disk management and deleted the partitions. Shrunk the volume.
Now I get that black screen with the PXE error.
tlawrence
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April 21st, 2011 11:00
Yeah ST9500325AS-(S1)
ejn63
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April 21st, 2011 11:00
Does the BIOS (F2 at powerup) still see the hard drive?
tlawrence
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April 21st, 2011 12:00
Looks good but of course I don't have a install cd. and procrastinated on making a backup recovery CD.
ejn63
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April 21st, 2011 12:00
here's how you restore the boot record:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/20864-mbr-restore-windows-7-master-boot-record.html
ejn63
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April 21st, 2011 13:00
http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dellcare/en/backupcd_form
tlawrence
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April 21st, 2011 14:00
Is there nothing I can do from my side?
tlawrence
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April 21st, 2011 14:00
I made a recovery partition on an external hard drive but I don't know how to boot from it? or how to access it. Or should/can I put it on a cd/dvd?
ejn63
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April 21st, 2011 14:00
You're not going to be able to do anything without a bootable Windows CD of the same version that's on the drive, no. You need to write a new bootsector.
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April 22nd, 2011 04:00
You can't boot from a recovery partition. You need a Windows DVD.