- Operating System Not Found
- Posted by Zach on October 4th, 2005
When booting up onto a different PC, I found that there was a problem.
"Operating System Not Found." This is the scenario, Linux and Windows were
installed, and grub was the chooser. A friend of mine, uninstalled linux,
and made that partition just free space. Then when I rebooted, grub would
show up in like an DOS prompt. Another friend of mine, troubleshooted, and
found a windows xp professional install disk, which is the operating system
of mine on the problem computer, and ran the Recovery Counsole. He then said
to run these commands, "map" to find the windows partition, and type in
"fixmbr [partition of windows]", then after type in "fixboot c:" So I did,
then eventually rebooted my computer, then it started with the problem I'm
facing right now, "Operating System Not Found." I am asking for help, and
thank you for your assistance.
- Posted by Javi0084 on October 4th, 2005
I don't know if you tried this or not but try changing the boot order from
your BIOS.
"Zach" wrote:
> When booting up onto a different PC, I found that there was a problem.
> "Operating System Not Found." This is the scenario, Linux and Windows were
> installed, and grub was the chooser. A friend of mine, uninstalled linux,
> and made that partition just free space. Then when I rebooted, grub would
> show up in like an DOS prompt. Another friend of mine, troubleshooted, and
> found a windows xp professional install disk, which is the operating system
> of mine on the problem computer, and ran the Recovery Counsole. He then said
> to run these commands, "map" to find the windows partition, and type in
> "fixmbr [partition of windows]", then after type in "fixboot c:" So I did,
> then eventually rebooted my computer, then it started with the problem I'm
> facing right now, "Operating System Not Found." I am asking for help, and
> thank you for your assistance.
- Posted by Zach on October 6th, 2005
Unfortantly, that didn't work, I'm thinking there is somthing wrong with the
master boot record. I really don't want to format it, but if I must, I will
just bring the hard drive to another house, and get most of the needed
information off of it. Thank you for the suggestion! Here's the things that
I have tried: Changed Boot order in the bios, used a boot disk, used the
commands fixboot-fixmbr in the recovery counsole. Is there any other
solutions that I could possibly try?
"Javi0084" wrote:
> I don't know if you tried this or not but try changing the boot order from
> your BIOS.
