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| Thread ID: 40159 | 2003-11-30 01:37:00 | 'no operating system found'! | Myke (3277) | Press F1 |
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| 195752 | 2003-11-30 01:37:00 | In the following situation 'no operating system found'!... What would be the best course of action? Can data be recovered without using a second PC and putting the dodgey drive in as a Slave? Would this even work? Can the master boot record be repaired? Is this even the problem? Will a simple reinstall fix the problem? Does the system need to be FDISKed? Don't you hate it when it's not your problem, but somebody asks for help and then you have a problem that you didn't have five minutes ago? |
Myke (3277) | ||
| 195753 | 2003-11-30 01:48:00 | Check that the cables to the HD have not worked loose first. | wotz (335) | ||
| 195754 | 2003-11-30 02:00:00 | Try booting up using a floppy disk into dos mode and then see if you can access the hard drive from there. if that works then you should be able to boot into another OS using a different drive and copy the data off the original. Then you can format and re-install and hopefully that will solve it. This all depends of course if you are using a win9x OS or 2000/XP formated in fat32 not NTFS |
Odin (227) | ||
| 195755 | 2003-11-30 02:13:00 | Is the drive dodgy? What were/are the symptoms? if this just happened out of the blue (and the HDD isn't a Quantum Bigfoot ;) ) then something else may be at fault. What OS is it, fixboot and fixmbr may be an option if you have win2k or xp (R for repair with the OS cd in the drive) or repair more than just the boot if its more serious than that. If the HDD is going/gone then another drive would be your first step to save data but not necessarily the OS. Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 195756 | 2003-11-30 09:58:00 | First thing I would check and Im not trying to dismiss any advice already given but, Please check that there is not a non bootable disk in the floppy drive | beama (111) | ||
| 195757 | 2003-11-30 16:47:00 | It sounds like your computer is not recognising the hard drive. Go into the bios (keep pressing the delete key as your computer starts up ) and find 'hard drive auto select' and press enter to see if your computer can recognise the hard drive. Even if this works it sounds like your hard drive is on the way out. | Octavian. (4897) | ||
| 195758 | 2003-11-30 18:10:00 | Put in a startup disk, and in the dos prompt type (without the quotes) "fdisk /mbr" That returns your master boot record to default. It leaves data intact. |
Wilky (776) | ||
| 195759 | 2003-11-30 20:48:00 | Try :- 1/ Make sure no floppy or CD in drives 2/ Check Hard Drive cable connections, both ends 3/ Go into BIOS and check drive is recognised in there 4/ Try as Slave in another PC If it can't be recognised at all, then it is most likely going to be bin material. Otherwise, try various recover tools mentioned above. |
Pheonix (280) | ||
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