Dell Latitude 2100 Issue No boot sector

[Vizon]

Hello Everyone,

I just purchased a netbook/notebook (mini-laptop) from eBay. It's a Dell Latitude 2100. When I tried to start it, it said "No boot sector on internal drive. I went into setup and changed the boot order to be the SSD first, but still had no luck.

I think a new install of the operating system (native is Windows 7 Professional 32 bit), should work... but I'm not sure. I have an external CD-RW ROM that I can plug in via USB. Because its a netbook, it doesn't have a CD/DVD slot. So I don't quite know what to do about it.

Other then that the laptop is perfect so I really don't want to try and return it.

Advice?

 

[Tmagic650]

You may be able to attach an external USB CD drive and install Windows that way

 

[Dell_BabitaG]

Hi Vizon,

As correctly recommended by TMagic650, you can connect an external Optical drive to the computer and then install the Operating System. Select the external USB-CD ROM as the device to boot from. Since you are getting an error when attempting to boot, we recommend you run the diagnostics to confirm the issue is not with hard drive failure. Click on the links below to troubleshoot the issue:

How to manually reinstall Windows 7 on a Dell computer: http://dell.to/15MYHsz

How to troubleshoot a Hard Drive Not Detected error :
http://dell.to/15vQ4BF

Once you have installed the Operating system, you may have to install the drivers. Click on the link below to install drivers for your computer.

http://dell.to/1dOmpam

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Please reply if you have further queries.

Thanks and regards,
Babita G
#iworkforDell

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