- Jun 23, 2014
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I have an old Dell Inspiron 1200 laptop that had XP on it. It worked ok except for the fact that it was horribly slow. So I decided to reformat the drive so I could reload XP and basically start all over. My daughter (10-year old) wanted a computer to use simply for watching Netflix, and I figured this one would be ok to use for that. I have done dozens of reformats in the past, but never had the problem I just did trying this reformat. During the process, it got to a point where it said, "osuninst.exe is missing." I couldn't really go further, so I quit the reformat until I could figure out what to do next. However, the computer immediately took me to a black screen with "NTLDR is missing - Hit CNTRL+ALT+DEL to continue." I have tried everything to get out of this mess. I went to another XP OS on a different computer and copied the missing NTLDR files to a flashdrive, but couldn't get the laptop to recognize the drive even when selecting it as the main boot source in bios and using F12. I tried putting the original OS disk in the drive and loading from that, but again, the computer doesn't even recognize the drive although I can hear the disk spinning in the drive. Nothing I have tried has worked despite trying ALL the suggestions I have found on numerous websites. I am now down to the possibility of just purchasing a new HD since for this computer, I can get a refurb relatively cheap on ebay. I'd prefer to not go that route, however, until I have exhausted every possibility. I'd really like to completely blitz everything so I can get to DOS and just install from there. I admit I am not the greatest geek in the world, but I have been taking care of all the computers in our house for a lot of years and have successfully taken care of every problem that has ever arisen. This one has me stumped, though. Seeing all the great help that others have gotten at this site, I hope someone has a magic trick up their sleeve to help me with this. Thanks!
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