AttackWithHugs
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Hello. Around the start of this week, I was browsing the Internet and it froze, so I decided to do a hard reboot. After the computer logo popped up, this message appears:
"No boot sector on internal hard driveNo bootable devices--strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utilityPress F5 to run onboard diagnostics."
So I followed the directions that were given to me on this site http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/Recovering+the+Windows+Bootloader+with+EasyBCD
So far, nothing has worked and it still pops up the message about the no boot sector, and a diagnostic test from Startup Repair says that the root cause is an MBR error. I followed all the steps in the above link exactly on every step, so far it worked until I got to the final step. Every time I typed in a command in the Command Prompt, a message afterwards would say 'The system cannot find the file specified.' My computer is a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop and I'm not even sure if this problem can be solved without me having to buy a brand-new hard drive, which I don't have the money for, let alone buying a new computer or having somebody look at it. It's important that I get this problem fixed because I am a full-time college student, and I do all my work on my laptop, and my new classes are only days away.
Also, if it helps, my computer is running Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. Unfortunately when I got my computer, it didn't come with a recovery or repair disk and I don't have the money to download one.
"No boot sector on internal hard driveNo bootable devices--strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utilityPress F5 to run onboard diagnostics."
So I followed the directions that were given to me on this site http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/Recovering+the+Windows+Bootloader+with+EasyBCD
So far, nothing has worked and it still pops up the message about the no boot sector, and a diagnostic test from Startup Repair says that the root cause is an MBR error. I followed all the steps in the above link exactly on every step, so far it worked until I got to the final step. Every time I typed in a command in the Command Prompt, a message afterwards would say 'The system cannot find the file specified.' My computer is a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop and I'm not even sure if this problem can be solved without me having to buy a brand-new hard drive, which I don't have the money for, let alone buying a new computer or having somebody look at it. It's important that I get this problem fixed because I am a full-time college student, and I do all my work on my laptop, and my new classes are only days away.
Also, if it helps, my computer is running Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. Unfortunately when I got my computer, it didn't come with a recovery or repair disk and I don't have the money to download one.
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