When i turn on my laptop it goes to a black screen and says non system or non disk replace and press any key to continue i need to know how to fix my laptop
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If you just need to get a working operating system installed again, and there is not a hardware problem causing this, (for example, your hard drive may have died - which would mean replacing it) you can simply insert a bootable operating system install CD/DVD and set the BIOS to boot from it. If you are trying to restore it to a previous condition and preserve whatever data might still be on the hard drive, there are some steps you can take. First, make sure this isn't something simple, like a non bootable floppy or other device being present. These steps to rewrite the boot record on the hard drive might be a good place to start. (I'm assuming something like Windows XP or 2K is currently installed) You're essentially just using the recovery console and running fixboot and/or fixmbr http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/483/xp_repair_fix_master_boot_record_recovery_console
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You don't happen to have a floppy disk in the drive, do you?
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