I just formated a hard drive and reinstalled XP on a laptop of mine. It worked fine for a couple of days, but yesterday I turned on my laptop and it read Operating system not found. I tried again a few minutes later and windows loaded. Then later on in the evening it began the same problem and is continuing to do so today. Anybody have any ideas whats going on or what I can do? Thanks.
2006-07-10 06:51:30 · 8 answers · asked by Ryan A 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Most likely you have a bad hard drive. Go into the BIOS when the computer starts up (usually it tells you to press a button to go into setup) There it will show which hard drives are installed. If you see no drives then the drive is bad.
2006-07-10 06:55:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This can be caused by hard disk drive failure, incorrect BIOS settings, a damaged or missing Master Boot Record (MBR), or an incorrect active partition. To resolve this issue, correct the computer's BIOS settings, use the Windows XP Recovery Console, or mark the correct partition on your hard disk drive as active.
2006-07-10 06:56:28 · answer #2 · answered by 942 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do you have a CD in the drive?
I think what happened is you are set to boot from a CD first then a Hard Drive. Your computer is checking the CD and if it finds a CD without the operating system it advises you. If the CD drive is empty then it moves to the hard drive and boots.
You will have to change your CMOS setting to C Drive then CD drive instead of CD drive then Hard drive. That will take care of it.
2006-07-10 06:54:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
properly, once you get a sparkling sparkling hardcontinual, it truly is empty. So what you pick to do is locate the position you saved each and each and every of the application from the field. There should be a CD with the operating equipment on it. Pop it contained in the tray once you start up it up, if it nevertheless says OS no longer got here upon, Restart the pc with the disk contained in the pc and it ought to arise with practise to reinstall the operating equipment.
2016-12-01 00:16:16 · answer #4 · answered by oroza 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
check in the bios and see which harddrive it is booting from. if it is booting from the correct harddrive the master boot record (MBR) is corrupt on the harddrive. if you reinstall and it continues the MBR sector on the harddrive is no good.
it is possible to repair the harddrive with a program but the not very likley. laptops get very hot inside which is what causes problems like that. if the disk is hot when it writes the MBR it could corrupt the harddrive forever. you can try to repatition and slow format. or even try zero filling the harddrive before format. find out who makes the harddrive and visit their website they will supply you with tools to possible fix the harddrive.
2006-07-10 06:55:44 · answer #5 · answered by Spyder 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
call a administrator maybe he replaces all ur software I'm not telling u to buy a new software, u could download Windows xp from many sites, just try, believe me that happened to me i called the guy who had installed my software and he re-installed it , remember if ur going to re-install ur software u don't only need the computer version (example: windows xp) u also need drives as sound drives so try to save them and if u need to save important files i recommend u a usb
2006-07-10 06:59:03 · answer #6 · answered by Ruben N 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go into the BIOS and make sure that the computer is booting off the hard drive....sounds like it might be looking at the optical drive first, and not booting...set your boot order in the BIOS, and make the hd the first boot device...hope that helps ya
2006-07-10 06:56:01 · answer #7 · answered by icon057 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like your hard drive is dying a slow death. Time to replace it.
2006-07-10 06:54:17 · answer #8 · answered by thunder2sys 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋