Deleted primary drive and can't reinstall windows

[valeriu.2809]

Hello,

Ok so basically I had this hardrive with partisions: 1 had XP(primary part) and the other was for usual stuff; what I did was install win7 on partition 2 and tried to switch that to primary partition then delete the other using some software I found online. Computer restarted and it wont boot anymore sayin Boot failure please insert disk or something. The tricky part is that I didnt panic since i was thinking oh well i'll just insert my XP cd and refresh install everything from DOS but when I try to boot from cd it says "Boot failure from other device" or something like that? I've made multiple copies of cds/dvds with different windows versions thinking its the cd but no matter what the pc won't boot from disk (changed boot prio in bios etc).

Has anyone experienced this issue before and knows whats there to be done? Thank you

PS: It's an old system im trying to reinstall to give it away to someone and it apparently doesnt recognize USB booting since i also tried to boot from a flashdrive 🙁

Thank you in advance

 

[jr9]

- It sounds like you deleted something important like your MBR when you deleted the XP partition. If you had all or part of your boot files on the XP partition deleting it will stop the PC from booting.

- It's unnecessary to use 3rd party software for managing your disks in this case. Windows has a tool called Disk Management that allows you to change your active partition and manage partitions. This software itself could be to blame, whatever it is.

- I've never heard of ""Boot failure from other device". What did it say exactly? In order to solve this issue you need to be able to boot to something. If you can't you will have to remove the disk from the PC and install it into another PC and manage it from there. There is no reason you should be not able to boot to a CD unless your boot priority settings arent correct (did you save them?) or your CDROM isn't working or CD isn't created properly.