| Forum Home | ||||
| Press F1 | ||||
| Thread ID: 73987 | 2006-11-07 21:35:00 | Cannot find OS | mejobloggs (264) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 497313 | 2006-11-07 21:35:00 | My friend turns on their laptop and it says 'No operating system found' Oh great. Yet if they try restarting it a few times, then it will boot into windows. It's getting rather annoying, and they want it fixed (obviously). Any suggestions? What type of info do you need? Cause I don't know. |
mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 497314 | 2006-11-07 21:41:00 | Sounds like a wire maybe loose, or something. Since it still boots into Windows. It hasnt been dropped previously has it? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 497315 | 2006-11-07 21:48:00 | Before I'd go hunting for wiring gremlins, I'd try a Safe Mode boot and see what happens . In all the years of low and high-voltage repairs, I haven't found much credit to failure via loose wiring that "somehow" works everh now and then . It's possible, mind one, but not likely . :groan: |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 497316 | 2006-11-07 21:52:00 | Well its either that the hdd isnt the bootdisk in the BIOS, or the hdd is going to die. | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 497317 | 2006-11-07 22:04:00 | Before I'd go hunting for wiring gremlins, I'd try a Safe Mode boot and see what happens . If the system cant find the hard drive to boot from booting into Safe Mode wont make any difference . This is a hardware problem not a software problem, thus Safe Mode is completely irrelevant . Do as Speedy has suggested and make sure the boot order in the BIOS is set correctly . My initial thought is that the hard drive is dying . |
Pete O'Neil (6584) | ||
| 497318 | 2006-11-07 22:04:00 | Some years ago I had similar problems and it was eventually diagnosed as the motherboard being cracked. A blob of blue-tack under one corner to close the crack made temporary repairs. | Scouse (83) | ||
| 497319 | 2006-11-07 22:07:00 | The HD is most likely dieing (as already noted) Backup the data and replace as soon as possible. Personally I would immediatly remove the HD and ghost the contents onto a new HD, I certainly wouldn't run the system again for any reason. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 497320 | 2006-11-07 22:11:00 | Or remove the floppy disk | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 497321 | 2006-11-07 22:21:00 | cancel this message...oh...I did! | SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 497322 | 2006-11-07 22:34:00 | why speculate ?.....it's pretty simple to download a harddrive diagnostic progrma from the manufacturer, all of them have them freely available on their website or else you could goto www.seagate.com and get 'seatools' which will run a 'generic' diagnostic if you want.......... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 1 2 | |||||