My gf's computer has been unusable for some time now. When booted all I get is a dos like screen saying that no operating system can be found. Under the BIOS i find that it actually says there is 0 HD. How can a computer go from being fine one day, to having no HD and not being able to locate an OS the next. Once out of about every 200 boots it will actually boot normally so I get the feeling some kind of cable or hardware issue is at hand. Please, if you have any advice help us out! It's a Japanese made notbook btw.
Without a hard drive being detected you will not get far. It is quite likely the ide connector in the laptop is faulty, really a specialist repair to take apart a laptop....
"it actually says there is 0 HD." Actually?
Engineers start counting at zero instead of one... so 'HD 0' is the first (or only) hard drive
If it wasn't detecting the hard drive, then you'd probably get a message saying that instead.
Are the settings in the BIOS correct for this drive? Is the system clock losing time?
I'm not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply suspect that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn't need an interpreter
Missing operating system I'm not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply suspect that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn't need an interpreter
It's happeneed to me a few times when I was working on computers. Sometimes the IDE cable gets loose and needs to be rechecked. Laptop = repair pro like Orbital says.
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