mr lover Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 I have been given a laptop minus a hard drive, got a new hard drive and fitted it but how do I load windows onto it ? I have put the disc in and it comes up with 'no boot sector on internal hard drive' then it starts to load/do something and then I get error code 1024 or status 1024 Just got file\i386\vgaoem.fon could not be loaded. The error code is 7 Any ideas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr lover Posted October 27, 2008 Author Share Posted October 27, 2008 Tried again and just got file\i386\vgaoem.fon could not be loaded. The error code is 1024 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caseys Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 Have you gone into the setup and selected the CD/DVD drive as the first bootable device? If not most will check for a HDD then go to the next one which is either floppy or CD/DVD Sounds like you may not have a bootable CD of XP/Vista if it's already booting off it? if it's finding an i386 directory, is the replacement HDD brand new or butchered out of something else? Normally you have to hit F1 / F3 / F8 or ESC key to get into the BIOS on the splash screen when the laptop first powers up. It'll say something like hit Fx to go to Setup screen. Once it's set to boot from CD/DVD it should load the XP/Vista setup screen and you go from there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 Did you go into the BIOS to tell it about the new hard disk? http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000465.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevie_b Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 As the others have said. It sounds like the missing "vgaoem.fon" file is part of windows xp, so somehow your laptop thinks XP is already installed (albeit broken). (sorry if this is what you meant caseys, I'm just clarifying): I would go into the BIOS and set the laptop to boot from CD/DVD as the first option. This way, whatever broken winXP happens to be on your hard disk, the laptop won't try to boot from it. 2 things might scupper you from doing this: 1) the laptop is too old to allow booting from a CD 2) the windows XP CD is not bootable (as caseys said) (1) is unlikely: the laptop would have to be ancient (10+ years old?) for this to be true. (2) is possible. Try to boot a different computer with it if you can to test this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 Have you tried resetting the ECU? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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