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9300 wont boot up. Please help.

post #1 of 4
3/25/05 at 7:45pm
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Ok, I just got my Inspiron 9300 and reinstalled Windows XP. While reinstalling I noticed I had 3 partitions. 1 was "-" and very small, the other was C (56gb), and the other was a 3gb FAT32 partition. I didnt touch the 3gb FAT32 partition until I had windows installed. After installing windows and getting it the way I wanted, I then I put the Windows XP CD back in the CD driver and booted from it. I did some research and found out that the 3gb partition had nothing but an image of my C partition that Dell made. I didn't want or need that image so I decided to delete it and use it as a partition to store back up files, etc. Anyways, after doing that my computer wont even boot. It says "No bootable devices". My C partition is still there, I didn't touch it. Why cant it boot from it?

Any help is greatly appreciated.
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post #2 of 4
3/25/05 at 8:01pm
two problems here.. unless you can set ur new C drive as the active partition.. you would have to reinstall windows XP.. What happens is that the 3 GB partition first 3GB of your hard-drive.. meaing that you might have delete your MBR.. use a boot disk and boot into dos... fdisk /mbr .. I think that was the command..

Fastest way.. REINSTALL WINDOWS =)
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post #3 of 4
3/25/05 at 8:03pm
You will need to edit your boot.ini file. It is looking for your system files on the partition they were on. When you deleted the partition, it changed the location.To do this, you will need some type of boot cd that will allow you to edit ntfs files. Like Wininternals Administrator pack.

Probably the easiest way for you to fix it - run xp setup again. It will detect the OS files and ask you if you want to do a new installation or repair the existing installation. Choose repair.
Hope that helps.
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post #4 of 4
3/26/05 at 6:04pm
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Yeah I had to do fixmbr, but that worked. Thanks for your help.
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