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pc boot up problem.

bassy · 2008-01-22 00:21:28

just bought a pc here on boards.ie and it came without the hardrive. so i tryed turning it on with a harddrive i had lying around here and i get the following DISK BOOT FAILURE PLEASE INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER. problem is i don,t have any disks for it,is there something i can do? would it take long to sort this…

22-01-2008 12:21am

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bassy

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just bought a pc here on boards.ie and it came without the hardrive.
so i tryed turning it on with a harddrive i had lying around here and i get the following DISK BOOT FAILURE PLEASE INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER.

problem is i don,t have any disks for it,is there something i can do?
would it take long to sort this problem?.thanks

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#2 22-01-2008 12:30am

Boggles

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You will have to put an operating system on the hard drive you installed.

You will have to buy a copy of either Windows Xp or Windows Vista. Unless the machine has a license for an Operating system, if it does, get onto whoever you bought the machine off and ask for the restore disks.

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