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king.latino
Hello!
My computer froze while it was doing something and I hit restart. When
the computer rebooted it ended on a black screen saying "Operating
System Not Found"
I have 2 other Hard Drives besides the one that has the Operating
System (WINXPPRO),
F: (60GB)
X: (200GB)
I immediately disconnected them because they have all my artwork,
files, and music and I wasnt sure if there was a virus on my computer.
When I removed the two drives and restarted the computer it loaded
Windows XP with no problem, but then Norton was having a fit and saying
my subscriptions had expired etc etc, and I couldn't even uninstall
them because the uninstall information is on one of the drives I took
out. I wanted to check and see if there was a virus on my computer, but
I didnt think this was the case. After much searching it seemed to be
that I had a corrupted Master Boot Record or a corruped BIOS.
I thought it might have been a corrupted BIOS because, when I try to
attach my other hard drives again, and boot from CD ROM, I get
CANNOT BOOT FROM CD ROM : ERROR 4
or something along those lines.. So I was like ok why isnt my CD ROM
bootable?
I went into my BIOS which is PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Version 6 (supposedly a
very popular bios) and I looked through it to see if anythign was off
-- well I couldnt see any of my hard drives listed..
This is how my bios menu looks:
MAIN | ADVANCED | SECURITY | POWER | BOOT | EXIT
I go to BOOT and I see a page with this info
Boot Time Diagnostic : [Enabled]
QuickBoot Mode: [Enabled]
....
First Boot Device : [Removable Devices]
Second Boot Device: [ATAPI CD-ROM DRIVE]
Third Boot Device: [Hard Drive]
Forth BD: [Network Boot]
In Hard Drive all I see is :
1. [Bootable Add-in Card]
Which I'm assuming is my ATAPI hard drive controller, but it doesnt
list any of the drives
In Removable Devies all I see is:
1. Legacy Floppy Drives
2. IOMEGA Zip 100-PM
and no CD ROM (which its DVD-RW drive)
In Removable Format all I see is
IOMEGA Zip 100-PM
Specs:
Dell Dimension XPS T700r (from 2000)
RAM: 512 MB
Clock: 700Mhz
HDD1: 30GB
HDD2: 60GB
HDD3: 200GB
It boots and acts fine when I take the other 2 drives out... Anyone
have any idea whats going on? I've spent the last few hours banging my
head trying to fix this..
My computer froze while it was doing something and I hit restart. When
the computer rebooted it ended on a black screen saying "Operating
System Not Found"
I have 2 other Hard Drives besides the one that has the Operating
System (WINXPPRO),
F: (60GB)
X: (200GB)
I immediately disconnected them because they have all my artwork,
files, and music and I wasnt sure if there was a virus on my computer.
When I removed the two drives and restarted the computer it loaded
Windows XP with no problem, but then Norton was having a fit and saying
my subscriptions had expired etc etc, and I couldn't even uninstall
them because the uninstall information is on one of the drives I took
out. I wanted to check and see if there was a virus on my computer, but
I didnt think this was the case. After much searching it seemed to be
that I had a corrupted Master Boot Record or a corruped BIOS.
I thought it might have been a corrupted BIOS because, when I try to
attach my other hard drives again, and boot from CD ROM, I get
CANNOT BOOT FROM CD ROM : ERROR 4
or something along those lines.. So I was like ok why isnt my CD ROM
bootable?
I went into my BIOS which is PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Version 6 (supposedly a
very popular bios) and I looked through it to see if anythign was off
-- well I couldnt see any of my hard drives listed..
This is how my bios menu looks:
MAIN | ADVANCED | SECURITY | POWER | BOOT | EXIT
I go to BOOT and I see a page with this info
Boot Time Diagnostic : [Enabled]
QuickBoot Mode: [Enabled]
....
First Boot Device : [Removable Devices]
Second Boot Device: [ATAPI CD-ROM DRIVE]
Third Boot Device: [Hard Drive]
Forth BD: [Network Boot]
In Hard Drive all I see is :
1. [Bootable Add-in Card]
Which I'm assuming is my ATAPI hard drive controller, but it doesnt
list any of the drives
In Removable Devies all I see is:
1. Legacy Floppy Drives
2. IOMEGA Zip 100-PM
and no CD ROM (which its DVD-RW drive)
In Removable Format all I see is
IOMEGA Zip 100-PM
Specs:
Dell Dimension XPS T700r (from 2000)
RAM: 512 MB
Clock: 700Mhz
HDD1: 30GB
HDD2: 60GB
HDD3: 200GB
It boots and acts fine when I take the other 2 drives out... Anyone
have any idea whats going on? I've spent the last few hours banging my
head trying to fix this..