[wdvltalk] Re: Operating System Not Found!!!

2003-06-23 Thread Franni Vincent
OMG I need help here - got up this morning, started up the machine no problem - went out for half an hour came back & now it's saying Operating System Not Found. How can this happen? How can I fix it? Has this happened to anyone before? I've tried restarting many times & it still gives me Operating

[wdvltalk] RE: Operating System Not Found!!!

2003-06-23 Thread Paul Larue
In the best of cases, the system just needs a disk check for bad clusters/sectors. I may simply be that the system files needed for booting are foudn there. In which case, a disk check should solve the problem... In the worst case scenario, however, a virus formated your hard drive and you now have

[wdvltalk] Re: Operating System Not Found!!!

2003-06-23 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Jac, > I've tried restarting many times & it still gives me > Operating System Not Found! "Operating System Not Found" is the message you usually get if you try rebooting your machine halfway through a rebuild, when you've formatted the hard drive but haven't put the new OS on yet. Have a go

[wdvltalk] Re: Operating System Not Found!!!

2003-06-23 Thread puterbug
Been a lng time since that happened to me, so I'm real rusty here, but to get you off to the possible beginning of some help, I think the first question others might as is this, can you boot to you OS off a floppy or cd boot disk? Deb At 09:21 AM 6/23/2003 +0100, you wrote: it's sayi