So my laptop HD died and I bought a brand new one, put it in and then tried booting from the DVD drive with a reinstall disk containing XP as well as the different versions of Win7, but I would just get insert bootable media errors. So I copied the disk contents to an external USB drive, set the laptop to boot from the USB and now I get 'Missing Operating System'.
I know there's a setup.exe on the disk, which I'm assuming is what allows you to select the OS type, but I'm not seeing what I need to do to get to that point. I don't see any way to boot to cmd prompt without the OS first or otherwise access the USB drive data.
Any suggestions?
I know there's a setup.exe on the disk, which I'm assuming is what allows you to select the OS type, but I'm not seeing what I need to do to get to that point. I don't see any way to boot to cmd prompt without the OS first or otherwise access the USB drive data.
Any suggestions?