Guest fr8erdawg Posted December 5, 2007 Posted December 5, 2007 any help would be appreciated. went out of town came back and turned on my computer and got a message "operating system not found". computer is now useless. any ideas?
Guest philo Posted December 5, 2007 Posted December 5, 2007 Re: windows98se "fr8erdawg" <fr8erdawg@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:C9D3A609-3663-4AC0-8045-DA2DF30D9653@microsoft.com... > any help would be appreciated. went out of town came back and turned on my > computer and got a message "operating system not found". computer is now > useless. any ideas? It's possible the cmos battery died and the settings were lost for your harddrive ... enter the bios and see if you can re-detect the drive... If you can but the settings get lost again...you'll need to replace your cmos battery (no big deal)
Guest fr8erdawg Posted December 6, 2007 Posted December 6, 2007 Re: windows98se The battery is good. I think the kids did something to the computer. Thanks. "philo" wrote: > > "fr8erdawg" <fr8erdawg@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:C9D3A609-3663-4AC0-8045-DA2DF30D9653@microsoft.com... > > any help would be appreciated. went out of town came back and turned on my > > computer and got a message "operating system not found". computer is now > > useless. any ideas? > > > It's possible the cmos battery died and the settings were lost for your > harddrive ... > > enter the bios and see if you can re-detect the drive... > > If you can but the settings get lost again...you'll need to replace your > cmos battery > (no big deal) > > >
Guest PCR Posted December 6, 2007 Posted December 6, 2007 Re: windows98se fr8erdawg wrote: | any help would be appreciated. went out of town came back and turned | on my computer and got a message "operating system not found". | computer is now useless. any ideas? Does it seem that the hard drive is recognized by BIOS during post? (A) Eject any floppy or CD left in a drive. Does it still happen? Then... (B) By the word of Starman, these are the error messages of the MBR (Master Boot Record) code... http://thestarman.pcministry.com/asm/mbr/STDMBR.htm Invalid partition table. Error loading operating system. Missing operating system. And these are of PBR (Partition Boot Record) code... http://thestarman.pcministry.com/asm/mbr/MSWIN41.htm Invalid system disk. Disk I/O error. Replace the disk, and then press any key. © Get a Startup Diskette from http://www.bootdisk.com/ , if you don't already have one from "Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, Startup Disk tab". Put the diskette in & turn on the computer. (It may be necessary to enter BIOS Setup & set the floppy to boot above the hard drive.) Enter "DIR C:" at the A:\ Prompt. Did you get a listing or an error message? Enter "FDISK /Status" What shows up? -- Thanks or Good Luck, There may be humor in this post, and, Naturally, you will not sue, Should things get worse after this, PCR pcrrcp@netzero.net
Guest philo Posted December 6, 2007 Posted December 6, 2007 Re: windows98se "fr8erdawg" <fr8erdawg@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:BED8156E-908D-49D1-9C0C-9BCF3AAFD1F3@microsoft.com... > The battery is good. I think the kids did something to the computer. Thanks. Sheesh... why when I was a kid (back in 1955) I sure as heck never fooled around with my dad's computer... kids!!!!! <G>
Guest Ben Myers Posted December 8, 2007 Posted December 8, 2007 Re: windows98se "fr8erdawg" <fr8erdawg@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:C9D3A609-3663-4AC0-8045-DA2DF30D9653@microsoft.com... > any help would be appreciated. went out of town came back and turned on my > computer and got a message "operating system not found". computer is now > useless. any ideas? Go to http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm and create a Windows 98 boot floppy. Use it to start the computer in question, select "Start computer without CD-ROM support", type "sys c:" at the "A:\" prompt and press "Enter". Then remove the floppy and restart. Ben
Guest cllockhard Posted January 17, 2008 Posted January 17, 2008 Re: windows98se I have a Compaq Presario that has Windows 98 SE on it I keep getting the same error message that the operating system can not be found.When I try to upgrade to a newer version of windows and I keep getting the error messages that my hard drive can not be detected. Please help me. I have tried everything and don't know what I can do to fix it. It seems that my hard drive is not being detected. -- cllockhard ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cllockhard's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=39641 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=866013 http://forums.techarena.in
Guest Ben Myers Posted January 17, 2008 Posted January 17, 2008 Re: windows98se "cllockhard" <cllockhard.33c6bd@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message news:cllockhard.33c6bd@DoNotSpam.com... > > I have a Compaq Presario that has Windows 98 SE on it > I keep getting the same error message that the operating system can not > be found.When I try to upgrade to a newer version of windows and I keep > getting the error messages that my hard drive can not be detected. > Please help me. I have tried everything and don't know what I can do to > fix it. It seems that my hard drive is not being detected. Start the computer and watch the screen closely for something like "Press delete for setup". Press the appropriate key, find "Autodetect Hard Drives" and perform the detection. Be sure to save the changes when exiting. Please note that the setup screens typically have instructions at the bottom or side of the screen and often there is no mouse support. Ben
Guest cllockhard Posted January 18, 2008 Posted January 18, 2008 Re: windows98se Thank you Ben. I know I have to press F10 to get into the BIOS Settings and how to move around withing the screen but I did not know how to check for the hard drive detection. Thank you very much -- cllockhard ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cllockhard's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=39641 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=866013 http://forums.techarena.in
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