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. I just asked yahoo and it said to check the Bios settings, I did and it said there was no hard drive on the computer. Does this mean I've lost what I have on the hard drive? Is there anything I can do?
2006-07-10 07:03:31 · 2 answers · asked by Ryan A 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Lots of different things you can do. First, run diskcheck to try to repair the hard drive. This can fix lots of errors.
Second, check your cable connections inside the box. Loose connectors can give intermittent failure errors (works fine, then quits, then works fine, etc.) this can happen pretty easily with a laptop, particularly if it's been dropped...
Third, if the hardware checks out fine, reinstall windows. Software installation glitches can also cause this error.
Fourth, If all else fails, most decent computer shops can do data recovery. They may not be able to save the drive, but they can often pull off the data, even from a "dead" drive.
2006-07-10 07:10:20 · answer #1 · answered by antirion 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, you haven't lost what you have.
IF you change harddisc settings in your computer's setup,
or physical damage on your harddisk,
that message may appear.
2006-07-10 14:10:29 · answer #2 · answered by iyiogrenci 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋