Newbie - Boot Record Not Found?

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OK Guys, please don't flame me as I'm a newbie to the site and pc's in general.

Basically, I bought a brand new PC two months ago. Now it wont boot up and there is a message saying "boot record not found". What does this mean and what can I do. Or is it a case that my hard drive needs to be replaced.

Is this normal after only two months of use?

Any info would be great.

Cheers
 
Welcome to the site!

Don't worry HBD, no-one will flame you on this site :)

It certainly isn't normal for this to happen after only a couple of months. I would stick your Windows CD into the PC, and then go into "recovery" mode to run scandisk.

Do you happen to have a boot floppy disk made from Windows XP?
 
No......


The pc came without software, and a friend installed Windows XP using his software (hope that's ok to say that), so no I don't have any disks at all.
 
Tut Tut..... he he he... Naughty.... lol

This is just a suggestion and i dont know if it would work.. but what if you tried a recovory disk from your friends PC... Presumeing that its the same OS.. if it works or not may be just pot luck

Hope you get it sorted though
 
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check there's no cd's or floppy disks in drives. then if not go into your bios and check that that hard disk is detected aand that it's selected as a boot device. if so then get hold of an XP cd boot to the recovery console and run the fixmbr and then fixboot commands.

reboot the machine.

if the hard disk isn't detected in the bios then reseat the ide (data) and the molex (power) cables to the hard drive and motherboard then try and detect in bios again, if still not detecting then buy a new hard disk.
 
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