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pbathia
Hi
A few days back I ran a cell-phone related applications and it
installed 2-3 new drivers. I did not have to restart my system but
windows created a restore point. The applications worked fine. Late
that evening, I restarted my laptop and while it was shutting down, I
happened to remove a USB wire that was connected to my laptop (USB wire
to download pics from a digital camera). The windows could not start
from that point onwards. When I power ON its gives me the screen with
'COMPAQ' printed on it for a minute or two and then a blank screen with
error 'Operating system not found'. I cannot hear any noise (fan,
spinning, cycle) for the HD is initiated. Also when I went into BOIS
setup (PhoneixBIOS setup) I have only 3 tabs - Main, Boot and Exit.
Under MAIN, I do not see any hard drive listed (primary, master, slave
etc). Under BOOT, I have removable media on the top and HARD Drive on
the bottom. I did a 'Load Default', verified that all drives were empty
and removed all external connections (external Hard drive and external
DVD writer) but still it gave me the same error on start up.
This morning when I went into BIOS and under BOOT I changed the order
to have Hard Drive first (previously I had removable drive, CD drive
and then hard drive). The system boots fine and everything seemed to be
resolved.
But then when loading some applications (default on start up like
Nortan anti virus, firewall
Etc) the system hanged-up (I was also connecting the USB cable at this
point of time -
The same USB cables for camera that I had removed while shutdown
earlier when the HD failed on re-start).
I restarted the system and back to the same error - 'Operating system
not found'. I did some more experiments with the BIOS in changing the
ORDER of boot having different
Drives on the top and then save-exit, power-cycle and start but it
keeps on having the same error 'Operating System Not Found'
On entering BIOS I get the following
CPQ Presario 2700 BIOS version HJ1 Q0f0f0
CPU = Intel (R) Pentium (R) III-M 1133Mhz
640 K system Ram Passes
510 M Extended Ram Passed
System BIOS Shadowed
Video BIOS shadowed
UMB upper limit segment address: E631
ATAPI CD-ROM: SR-C8102
Mouse initialized
Entering setup..
This is a Compaq Presario 2710US Notebook.
Processor: 1.13 GHz Intel Pentium III
Number of Processors: 1
RAM: 512 MB
RAM Type: SDRAM
Hard Drive: 20 GB
CD-RW: 8x (write)
DVD-ROM: 8x
Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition
Bundled Software: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, America Online,
Microsoft Encarta Online Deluxe Encyclopedia - 1 year subscription,
Microsoft Works 6.0, Microsoft Money 2001, Norton Anti-Virus, Microsoft
Media Player 7, Roxon Easy CD Creator 5.01, Studio DV, Interview Winded
3.0
Display Viewable Size: active-matrix
Display Viewable Size: 15 inches
Weight: 7.9 pounds
I need to get some data restored from this HD (or the entire HD working
preferably)
A few days back I ran a cell-phone related applications and it
installed 2-3 new drivers. I did not have to restart my system but
windows created a restore point. The applications worked fine. Late
that evening, I restarted my laptop and while it was shutting down, I
happened to remove a USB wire that was connected to my laptop (USB wire
to download pics from a digital camera). The windows could not start
from that point onwards. When I power ON its gives me the screen with
'COMPAQ' printed on it for a minute or two and then a blank screen with
error 'Operating system not found'. I cannot hear any noise (fan,
spinning, cycle) for the HD is initiated. Also when I went into BOIS
setup (PhoneixBIOS setup) I have only 3 tabs - Main, Boot and Exit.
Under MAIN, I do not see any hard drive listed (primary, master, slave
etc). Under BOOT, I have removable media on the top and HARD Drive on
the bottom. I did a 'Load Default', verified that all drives were empty
and removed all external connections (external Hard drive and external
DVD writer) but still it gave me the same error on start up.
This morning when I went into BIOS and under BOOT I changed the order
to have Hard Drive first (previously I had removable drive, CD drive
and then hard drive). The system boots fine and everything seemed to be
resolved.
But then when loading some applications (default on start up like
Nortan anti virus, firewall
Etc) the system hanged-up (I was also connecting the USB cable at this
point of time -
The same USB cables for camera that I had removed while shutdown
earlier when the HD failed on re-start).
I restarted the system and back to the same error - 'Operating system
not found'. I did some more experiments with the BIOS in changing the
ORDER of boot having different
Drives on the top and then save-exit, power-cycle and start but it
keeps on having the same error 'Operating System Not Found'
On entering BIOS I get the following
CPQ Presario 2700 BIOS version HJ1 Q0f0f0
CPU = Intel (R) Pentium (R) III-M 1133Mhz
640 K system Ram Passes
510 M Extended Ram Passed
System BIOS Shadowed
Video BIOS shadowed
UMB upper limit segment address: E631
ATAPI CD-ROM: SR-C8102
Mouse initialized
Entering setup..
This is a Compaq Presario 2710US Notebook.
Processor: 1.13 GHz Intel Pentium III
Number of Processors: 1
RAM: 512 MB
RAM Type: SDRAM
Hard Drive: 20 GB
CD-RW: 8x (write)
DVD-ROM: 8x
Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition
Bundled Software: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, America Online,
Microsoft Encarta Online Deluxe Encyclopedia - 1 year subscription,
Microsoft Works 6.0, Microsoft Money 2001, Norton Anti-Virus, Microsoft
Media Player 7, Roxon Easy CD Creator 5.01, Studio DV, Interview Winded
3.0
Display Viewable Size: active-matrix
Display Viewable Size: 15 inches
Weight: 7.9 pounds
I need to get some data restored from this HD (or the entire HD working
preferably)