Operating System Not Found - Error Message
Friday, July 11, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Posted by Liz
(1 messages posted)
I have an HP desktop with Windows XP Home Edition. I have read various posts similar
to mine but no solutions. I am in no way tech savy but I can do minor OS things.
Two days ago my desktop was fine, no problems. Then the day after I turned it on
and it was making a weird loud ticking noise and would load the HP F1 Setup F10 System
restore white/blue screen and then would say "Operating System Not Found" various
times. A few times it gave the Last Good Known Configuration/Safe Mode/Start Nomarlly
etc options. I tried all but after the loading XP screen it would not do anything.
What could I do to restore my desktop? I really need it and definately do not have
the money to get a new one. Please Help!
Thanks.
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re: Operating System Not Found - Error Message
Sunday, July 13, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Posted by rq2000
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There is a few possible other solutions even though I agree with Steve it does SOUND
like a Hard Drive FAILURE...It could possibly just be a bad boot sector on the drive,
If you have another WORKING machine and a floppy drive you can copy the boot sector
from working machine to floppy and TRY it in the HP, it might just work. I had bought
a SATA drive not long ago and the onboard tools that came with it changed my entire
configuration around and locked me out of my comp. After a week of dealing with Microsoft
and EVERY solution they gave me making it FAR WORSE, I tried this and actually booted
of the WIN XP CD. Once I did that I QUICKLY copied ALL of MY DOCUMENTS in case something
happened and locked me out again. GOOD thing I did to because rebooting machine REINSTALLED
Windows over the old one wiping out my old folders but I didn't have to REFORMAT
my harddrive losing everything else. I did have to reinstall SP2, SP3 and IE7 though.
I know this is not the BEST possible solution but if you can't afford to get a new
Hard Drive it is worth a shot. There might be a couple of other files that might
have become corrupt as well but this is the FIRST one that it needs to load. You
could also try to use the chkdsk utility on it to see if there are some bad sectors.
You might actually want to try this before anything else. Good luck, I do know how
AGGREVATING it can be as I suffered through the same message SEVERAL times during
that week knowing full good and well my OS did exist and was absolutely fine. I even
received messages telling me my motherboard was bad which it is still running with
no problems, that all happened about 2 months ago.
On Friday, July 11, 2008 at 5:26 pm, Liz wrote:
>
>I have an HP desktop with Windows XP Home Edition. I have read various posts similar
>to mine but no solutions. I am in no way tech savy but I can do minor OS things.
>Two days ago my desktop was fine, no problems. Then the day after I turned it on
>and it was making a weird loud ticking noise and would load the HP F1 Setup F10
System
>restore white/blue screen and then would say "Operating System Not Found" various
>times. A few times it gave the Last Good Known Configuration/Safe Mode/Start Nomarlly
>etc options. I tried all but after the loading XP screen it would not do anything.
>What could I do to restore my desktop? I really need it and definately do not have
>the money to get a new one. Please Help!
>
>
>Thanks.
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