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operating system
Name: jlh868
Date: May 8, 2006 at 11:45:45 Pacific
OS: windows 98
CPU/Ram: pentium 3 (287MB)
Product: HP
Comment: message says "operating system not found"
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Response Number 1
Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: May 8, 2006 at 12:40:19 Pacific
Reply: Probably the CMOS lost the HD setting.
or
The partition table/MBR is trashed.
or
The 'system' files
io.sys
went away.
If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.M2
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Response Number 2
Name: jlh868
Date: May 9, 2006 at 09:12:25 Pacific
Reply: I think this was a government computer and they scrammbled the hard drive what can I do?
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Response Number 3
Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: May 9, 2006 at 09:19:05 Pacific
Reply: You can install an OS.
If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.M2
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Response Number 4
Reply: Have you checked to see that *NO* floppy disc or CD has been left in the pc.
If they have AND they are non-bootable AND the boot order looks at eitheror both of them before the hdd, this is the fail message you will get.
If the hdd really has been wiped, suggest you consider:-
Good Luck - Keep us posted.
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