reloading operating system

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I recently downloaded a program called drive washer. I was considering
selling my computer. Anyhow,it did what it was suppose to do,and now there is
no operating system on my computer. I have tried using my recovery cd's,they
seem to load ok,but when i go to boot up ,it still says no operating system.
What do I do?
 
You probably washed the hidden partition operating system info. The recovery
disks need that info. But, that's only a guess.
What's the make and model of your computer? Go to their website and see
if they have any answers for you. My guess
is that you will probably have to purchase a WinXP CD.
 
My computer is a Sony Vaio Laptop.I have had it at a computer repair shop
over a week,and they still cannot get a windows system on it. I did go to the
sony website and the things they said to do have all been done. Since the
drive wash program runs on its own system--linux--would that system go on it?
Thanks for your help.

Rich said:
You probably washed the hidden partition operating system info. The recovery
disks need that info. But, that's only a guess.
What's the make and model of your computer? Go to their website and see
if they have any answers for you. My guess
is that you will probably have to purchase a WinXP CD.
I recently downloaded a program called drive washer. I was considering
selling my computer. Anyhow,it did what it was suppose to do,and now there
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system.
What do I do?
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Sure, I have used a linux distro to repair and replace the mbr many times.
Give Ubuntu a try.
 
Check the boot.ini file settings (in the root of C: drive) - it's highly
probable that the original 'image' of Windows allowed for the presence of a
hidden partition. Since that's no longer there Windows is now on partition
one instead of partition two.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=289022

Note that if the computer won't start and the disk is NTFS, then the best
way to edit the file is from Knoppix, Ubuntu or BartPE.
 
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