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No Boot Sector on Internal hard drive and No cd drive
I have a Latitude 2100 in an elementary school. one of the students dropped it and now the hard drive is bad. So I replaced the hard drive and it gives me the message No boot sector on internal hard drive Error loading operating system. I have read other posts about this same message, but they all suggest using the CD/DVD's that came with the computer. My latitude does not have those drives. Our district uses USB images and it is not recognizing the usb drive, I guess? Can you please help?
Thank you!
osprey4
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October 23rd, 2012 17:00
Hi CarsonKatie,
This is normal for a new drive since it has no operating system. You will have to load the operating system using either an external DVD drive or a bootable USB flash drive. To boot to either of these, you'll need to set one of them as a boot device in the BIOS.
You can follow Natakuc's clean install guide that I've linked to below.
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October 23rd, 2012 18:00
Thank you for your solution! I am not able, or don't know how to access the BIOS. I thought that you used F2, but that did not work.
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October 24th, 2012 06:00
Do you get the blue Dell logo? When you see that, you need to tap F2 a few times and you should be able to get into the BIOS.