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HELP!
« on: May 20, 2007, 12:30:47 AM »
I recently used Active@Kill Disk to erase my old laptop drive to give to my cousin and now when I boot it up all I receive is a message saying "Operating System Not Found" Please Help Me I do not know what to do to get started.

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    Re: HELP!
    « Reply #1 on: May 20, 2007, 12:41:36 AM »
    Do you till have the (legal) CD of the OS?
    You did knew that formatting is erasing ALL data including your OS.

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      Re: HELP!
      « Reply #2 on: May 20, 2007, 12:42:47 AM »
      gqgq69x..........
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      I recently used Active@Kill Disk to erase my old laptop drive to give to my cousin and now when I boot it up all I receive is a message saying "Operating System Not Found"
      That's correct , there is no longer any operating system installed . Either you or your cousin will have to install the operating system of choice. Go into the bios, and change the boot sequence to cd-rom first boot , exit bios,
      put the bootable operating system cd into the cd -rom and reboot the machine ....... follow the instructions.

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      Re: HELP!
      « Reply #3 on: May 20, 2007, 12:43:33 AM »
      I have a copy of Windows Xp but that is all I have When I got it out of the box all It had was a cd for the user guide and a printer driver

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      Re: HELP!
      « Reply #4 on: May 20, 2007, 12:44:21 AM »
      Thank you <3

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        Re: HELP!
        « Reply #5 on: May 20, 2007, 12:50:17 AM »
        gqgq69x ....All you need is the nice shiny MS XP ( either home or pro ) cd and the serial code which should be on the laptop somewhere. Look on the bottom ....... for a label ....with a 25 digit alpha numberic code.
        xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx


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