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If you formatted the drive that contained the main operating system you will need to boot off of a CD, DVD, floppy or USB drive that contains an operating system such as a system restore disk that came with the computer, a commercial operating system disk such as Windows XP or a free Linux 'Live CD' such as Ubuntu or openSUSE.

If your computer is not recognizing the CD/DVD drive as a boot device you will need to add the CD/DVD drive as a boot device in your computer's BIOS.

When you computer first turns on your will need to hit a specific key on your keyboard (a lot of times the 'delete' key) to enter 'setup' (aka the BIOS). Refer to the instructions for your particular BIOS to add the CD/DVD drive as a boot device (more info here http://www.hiren.info/pages/bios-boot-cdrom)

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