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Missing O/S After Clean Boot
Name: xlcr Date: September 13, 2008 at 05:31:11 Pacific OS: XP Home CPU/Ram: Celeron 2.80/512mb Product: Packard Bell EasyNote
Comment:
Laptop suddenly started hanging randomly when selecting applications - Particularly IE or CD-ROM. Checked for virus - none found. Machine then started hanging when re-booting. Not always, but always at the same point - at the point where all the dots are flashing across the XP screen.
Decided to try a clean boot using Guided Help. Got to the re-boot point and now get error message "Missing Operating System".
The machine doesn't have a floppy drive and I don't have a recovery disk as I got the machine second hand. It does have a genuine O/S installed and it does have a sticker.
Name: lurkswithin Date: September 13, 2008 at 19:31:03 Pacific
Reply:
What guided help did you use and how did you get to where you are now?
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Response Number 2
Name: xlcr Date: September 14, 2008 at 02:30:10 Pacific
Summary: I for the first time in my computing history had to perform a fresh re-install of my O/S .I had lost the ability to perform a factory restore because I had lost the administrator password and the PC...
Summary: Guess it would be a matter of installing the old drive as a slave, then altering the boot.ini file. Never have done it. Back up your files. The second article tells how to add or remove an O.S. from ...
Summary: The second article tells how to add or remove an O.S. from the boot.ini file. The Purpose of the Boot.ini File in Windows XP HOW TO: Edit the Boot.ini File in Windows XP ...
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