Assuming there is no floppy in the drive you may have some hardware failure.
You might try a boot floppy. To start the operating system try creating a
boot floppy. For the floppy to successfully boot Windows 2000 the disk must
contain the "NT" boot sector. Format a diskette (on a Windows 2000 machine,
not a OS/Win9x, so the NT boot sector gets written to the floppy), then copy
ntldr, ntdetect.com, and boot.ini to it;
[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\winnt
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\winnt="Windows 0,1"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\winnt="Windows 0,2"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\winnt="Windows 1,1"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\winnt="Windows 1,2"
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Regards,
Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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| When I turn the computer on I am getting an error message that says
| "Operating System not found". What is wrong and how can I repair this?
| Running Windows 2000 Pro. I do nto have a rescue disk.
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| csi69 out
