If you are still working on this and want to put more effort into it, you may want to look at SpinRite 6. (www.grc.com) It is quite good at hard drive repair. Of course, running this does not help if the OS files went bad and not the hard drive.
Hans -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dennis Fleming Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 8:45 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - O/T- Operating System not found On a Dell Inspiron 2650 laptop with XP (about 6 years old), the rather ominous message probably indicates the hard drive is toast. I can hit the F2 key to get to the set up screen where I can look elsewhere for a bootable O/S. (It currently says, "Hard Drive: None") My hunch is that even if all else is OK, probably not worth replacing a hard drive? TIA, Dennis ***** Dennis Fleming IISCO www.TheBestCMMS.com Phone: 570 775-7593 Mobile: 570 351-5290
