"Operating system not found".

[Guest]

When i first boot up my computer, i receive the following message,"Operating system can not be found". So, i shut it down and turn it back on, and that's when the operating system comes on, or the PC boots up.

 

[Steve C. Ray]

Your hard drive is probably failing. It is slow to come up to speed, so it
isn't read when the computer is trying to find the operating system. When
you reboot the hard drive comes up to speed quicker since it was just
started, and the computer can read it.

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Steve C. Ray

When i first boot up my computer, i receive the following

message,"Operating system can not be found". So, i shut it down and turn it
back on, and that's when the operating system comes on, or the PC boots up.

 

[Guest]

When i turn on my computer it tell me i do not have a operating system. I put in a new hard drive but how do i get the operating sytem in. it will not take my xp pro 2000 from my cd drive when i put it in to down load to creat a operating system

 

[Guest]

The computer will not boot up at all and I am not sure of what steps i should take to dowm load a operating system or what I should buy 98 or win 2000 or if the new hard should be paritioned or formated first. what steps should i take and how.

 

[anonymous]

Hi Billy,

You'll need to first make a change in your system BIOS so your computer
tries booting from your CD before booting from your hard drive. You can
usually access your BIOS settings by hitting your delete key when your
computer is first starting, you know, when the screen is black and the
text is white.

After you've made that change in to BIOS you should be able to boot from
a windows install CD, like 2000 Pro, and it'll allow you to format your
new drive as well as run through a setup program that will install your
operating system. Maybe a XP CD does the ssame thing, I haven't played
with one of them before.