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David Gillett <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 11 Feb 2006 02:33:16 -0800
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  The boot failure is because your primary drive now has no partitions on 
it, and thus no OS.  You need to boot from a floppy or CD-Venkat Viswanathan 
<[log in to unmask]>ROM and partition and format the drive, and install an 
OS.

David Gillett


On 10 Feb 2006 at 23:50, Chris Gagne wrote:

> I recently used KillDisk (free version) to wipe a primary hard drive.
> Now, when I re-boot it shows that the primary slave, secondary master
> and secondary slave do not exist. At the bottom of the screen it says
> "Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk and Press Enter". 
> 
> What do I have to do to make the system recognize the hard drive so
> that I can reinstall Windows. Thank you all! 
> 
> Chris

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