DELL Latitude CPi

[ajg68]

I know my issue is simple but I am not able to figure it out. I have a refurb'd Dell Latitude CPi laptop that I am trying to load XP but constantly get the message of "No Boot Sector" in which case it prompts me to hit F1 for reboot or F2 to view CMOS.

I am thinking I need to simply create a boot disk but it has been a longtime since I have done this.... does anyone have a site that has the boot configs already to download?

Thanks. Aj

 

[Snickle]

Try

http://www.bootdisk.com

or

http://www.bootdisk.de,

get a Win98 boot disk that has CD support. [You won't need it for other than fdisk and format, start with FAT32.] There is no boot disk for WinXP. You might also look in the BIOS and see if the CD drive can be made bootable.

 

[Hungster]

chances are your hard drive is dead

 

[ajg68]

Thank you Berton and Hungster - hard drive was fine. The problem was, I over looked a setting in the BIOS which prevented the computer from booting off the HDD.

All is working now...

Thank you for your advice and responses.