how do i get a fresh copy of windows on a hard drive that is fucked up does not boot into the windows that is on it and when i push f8 and tell it to boot from my disk drive to run to windows disk that i have it doesnt work it just says "insert boot media and reboot" or somthing like that
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Jump to Postis it the hard drive that messed up or is it the operating system that is messed up
assuming that the hard drive is healthy make sure that the cd/dvd drive is first in the boot priority in CMOS setup place the cd in the drive save your changes …
Jump to Postok so did you try the method I posted above
did you get an error message
or what happened?
Jump to Postok what kind of hard drive and cd drive do you have PATA (IDE) or SATA
Jump to Postsounds like its not reading the hard drive anymore,they do die you know
Jump to Postsounds like its not reading the hard drive anymore,they do die you know
thats what I was getting ready to tell him
also
to check if it is being detected in the bios
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