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Name: rsasalm
Date: December 1, 2002 at 12:17:26 Pacific
OS: Win95
CPU/Ram: P2
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Hi all,

I have win95 installed on my PC. It has been working fine. Today when I reboot the machine efter some initialization I got the
message "Operative system not found". Why I get this message, what has happened to my machine? What I remember is that I did clean the place near the computer which might have caused that some cable gets loose, may this cause the error I get? or there is something else I have to check.
Please help me in this regard.
regards
/rsasalm



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Response Number 1
Name: Jim
Date: December 1, 2002 at 13:04:27 Pacific
Reply:

Boot from a floppy and type fdisk /mbr


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Response Number 2
Name: rsasalm
Date: December 1, 2002 at 13:17:12 Pacific
Reply:

Hi Jim,
Thanks for reply.

Do I loose the data on my machine when I use fdisk /mbr ??

/rsasalm


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Response Number 3
Name: GoSooners
Date: December 1, 2002 at 13:51:12 Pacific
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No, fdisk /mbr just restores the master boot record. The rest of the drive is untouched.


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Response Number 4
Name: Johnw
Date: December 1, 2002 at 14:09:46 Pacific
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No .

If that fails , try this .
Start up with your Boot disc or Startup disk in ( without cd rom support )
At the A: prompt , type , sys c: and then press ENTER.

Take out the boot disk & restart your computer.


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