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Deleted Entire HDD, Operating System Not Found - Wont boot from CD
Hi
I hope somebody on this knowledgeable forum can help me after a very silly mistake I had committed when trying to reinstall/reformat my friend's Samsung R519 Laptop and do a clean install of windows 7. I had used the tutorial below, using diskpart to 'clean all'
How to Do a Clean Install of Windows 7 « How-To Geek Forums
DiskPart <ENTER>
list disk <ENTER>
select disk 0 <ENTER>
clean all <ENTER> (Will Take a While)
create partition primary align=1024 <ENTER>
format fs=ntfs <ENTER> (Will Take a While)
assign <ENTER>
active <ENTER>
exit <ENTER>
exit <ENTER>
The problem there were two disks listed - disc 0 and disc 1 - I completed the steps above but stupidly ran the clean all steps for both discs and now I think I had managed to delete the entire HDD and now it won't boot from CD. The error comes up as 'operating system not found'.
I can access the BIOS on F2 but cannot access the recovery console on F4 - it's probably been deleted. I have tried booting from various recovery discs including the windows 7, a system repair disc (created from a different laptop), and the hiren's boot cd. Nothing will load from the CD-ROM as it says the same error - Operating system not found.
At some point I can remember it saying bootmgr is missing, but after attempting a few things I read up on various forums I don't receive this error anymore. I'm thinking there must be a way to load up whatever is misisng from scratch as everything is deleted. I have selected CD-ROM in the boot priority and also tried disabling the HDD to force it to boot from CD - but still same error - Operating System Not Found.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Many thanks