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post #1 of 10
3/12/12 at 7:38am
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please help i recently formatted my hard drive on a dell insprion  2650 with Derick's boot and nuke when go to install windows xp it wont load i have the factory recovery disc and and a copy of windows xp  cant do nothing please help thanks

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post #2 of 10
3/12/12 at 9:11am
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Originally Posted by gopher459 View Post

please help i recently formatted my hard drive on a dell insprion  2650 with Derick's boot and nuke when go to install windows xp it wont load i have the factory recovery disc and and a copy of windows xp  cant do nothing please help thanks

Any error codes and messages?

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post #3 of 10
3/12/12 at 9:40am
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post #4 of 10
3/12/12 at 12:02pm
So you put in the XP installation disk, starting up the comp and nothing happened? No light, no sound, no display?

Try putting in a Linux installation disk and see if any difference?

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post #5 of 10
3/13/12 at 4:23am
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whats that i put a Windows 98 boot disc in turns out the hard drive wasn't fat 32 or ntfs it did the f disc thing booted with CD ROM support no luck

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post #6 of 10
3/13/12 at 7:49am
Sorry. I am having a hard time to understand the issue.

You started with installation disk ok?
You cannot access the hard drive?

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post #7 of 10
3/13/12 at 9:38am
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the hard drive is fine  i have the original recovery disks a copy a copy of windows ex and a windows 98 boot disk nothing works the cd rom drive works fine im thinking i wiped out the drivers for the cd rom thats why nothing will load

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post #8 of 10
3/13/12 at 9:42am
In a clean system, the optical drive is being recognized under BIOS, you should not need any driver to make an installation disk booting up from the optical drive. Could it be failing, the drive itself?

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post #9 of 10
3/13/12 at 10:38am
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it works fine when i put the nuke disk in

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post #10 of 10
3/13/12 at 12:07pm
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it works fine when i put the nuke disk in

so it recognizes the "nuke" disk when you put it in and you can boot up the comp from it now, is this correct?

As I suggested above, use a Linux LiveCD (or a GPart CD), see if you can boot it and format the drive from one of these 2 disks. If they can boot the system up I would recommend trying with some other Windows installation CD

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