I certainly hope someone can help me to solve this mystery how I can restore Dell MBR. Here's what happened and I even emailed to Dell Tech Support. First and foremost I am on disability pension and cannot afford to call tech support from Dell otherwise they'll charge me since I have Dell Inspiron 1100 about 2 years now, thus warranty is expired.  I never had a problem with it until now.

 

When I received laptop computer from Dell, it was all set and was running on Windows XP Home, and about I believe 6 months ago I installed Windowx XP Pro on my laptop, and about 3 weeks ago I started having problems. At first Windows went blank to blue screen with Message:

STOP 0X000000F4 (0X00000003, oX82916DA0, 0X82916F14, 0X805F9F88)

Begining dump of physical memory

 

I rebooted the computer, and the next message come up:

Primary Hard Disk Drive not Found

 

Rebooted the computer again, and then another message come up:

NO BOOTABLE DEVICES.. strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility

 

I hit F2 for setup utility to check if it recognizes HDD, and it is there.

 

(Keep in mind that when it didn't boot up, I went out to the store and bought a new HDD for my laptop, installed it, formatted it by way of WindowsXP Pro, installed programs, and it did the same thing when booting the system).

After reboot again, I hit F12, and selected "inernal Hard Diskl" and it works,

 

I also updated system bios and old version was A27 and new one is A31 now in my system.

 

I tried everything I could possible think of why is this happening, and I even emailed Dell, but I am not holding much help if they would offer any help, so I am posting it here.

 

I also did followed the instructions from others who suggested to try the web site: http://wwwgoodells.net to try to fix MBR.  When I typed in DOS: dsrfix (dsrfix.exe), it showed this string:

DSRFIX - Dell DSR Analyzer Ver. 1.2

 

good: