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re: Operating system not found XP
Tuesday, October 21, 2003 at 2:23 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Andy
(75 messages posted)
Are the drives detected in the bios? If they are not visible there, then you need
to sort that out before doing anything else. If both the drives are connected to
the same cable, disconnect one of them and then see if the bios detects the remaining
drive, and then do the same with the other drive. If both drives can be detected
when they are connected by themselves, then it may something as simple as a jumper
setting. If only one of the drives is able to be detected when on the cable by itself,
then it could be that one of the drives has failed and when both are connected, it
causes both of them not to be recognised properly.
Good luck, I'll check back later to see how you get on.
On Tuesday, October 21, 2003 at 12:55 am, crunkster wrote:
>Hi, my friend has recently got this error message saying "Operating System not found"
>at the startup. I have tried to fix the master boot record but no success. Although,
>I used aefdisk and for some reason the partition wasn't enabled, but it is now.
After
>that I got a message saying NTLDR missing press ctrl+alt+del to restart. Then I
restarted
>again and im still getting the operating system not found. Also, I cant even open
>FDISK anymore because it says something about no devices or something. It's like
>the computer doesnt even read the hard drive anymore. I checked the bios and everything
>looks the same as it was before. I also put them to defaults and still nothing.
>
>Computer w/problem
>Gateway with Pheonix bios from like 1999.
>Windows XP
>Pentium III
>2 Hard Drives, Neither of them recognized
>
>Any help would be appreciated... Thankyou!
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