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NO OPERATING SYSTEM FOUND!!

Postby Emzyxxx » Sat Jul 16, 2011 11:09 pm

HELLO ALL I HAVE AMILO LI 2735 LAPTOP AND 2 WEEKS AGO IT WOULDNT LOAD UP IT JUST CAME UP WITH A BLACK SCREEN SAYIN NO OPERATING SYSTEM FOUND, SO I TOOK IT BACK TO THE PLACE WHERE I BOUGHT IT FROM AS IT WAS UNDER GUARNTEE AND THEY SENT IT TO THERE REPAIR MAN AND HE SAID IT WAS THE HARD DRIVE IT HAD BEEN TOTALLY WIPED CLEAN AND SAID THERE IS ABSOULTEY NOTHING AT ALL ON THE HARD DRIVE THATS WHY MY COMPUTER WASNT BOOTING UP THEY WANTED ME TO PAY £50 FOR IT TO GET FIX WHICH I REFUSED AS IT WAS UNDER GUARNTEE I HAVE THE WINDOWS VISTA DISK MYSELF BUT I DO NOT HAVE A RECOVERY DISK,

WHEN I GO INTO BIOS SETUP MY HARD DRIVE ISNT THERE HOW CAN I GET IT BACK OR RE INTSALL OR RE FORMAT IT AN RE INSTALL WINDOS VISTA, PLEASE HELP ITS DRIVING ME CRAZY,
I HAVE TRYED RE INSTALLIGN WINDOWS VISTA AND IT GOES PAST THE BIT WHERE IT SAYS WINDOWS IS LOADING FILES THEN GOES ONTO THE LOAD PAGE AS TO GO ONTO THE HOMEPAGE BUT WONT GO PAST THERE ANY IDEAS? THANKS
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Re: NO OPERATING SYSTEM FOUND!!

Postby silverarrow » Thu Jul 21, 2011 10:23 pm

It is very weird all data should be deleted unless you have formatted or deleted the hard drive completely for some reason. I wouldn't trust the repair guys completely, at least I would try booting in something like Puppy linux (from live CD) to see if it can detect anything on the hard drive. I would also check for faulty sectors on the hard drive. (Ubuntu and Fedora have a feature that does this, and all free). I rather think there's something wrong with start up registry, failing file system or something like that.

Another option is to stick the hard drive in another laptop to see if anything is detected. What the repair guys do is to reinstall Vista from scratch anyhow, and check for hard drive errors. If you have the Vista installation CD, with a bit of luck all you need to do is boot up in a live CD that can read the hard drive (like puppy linux or knoppix), from there you can send the data you need to a external memory unit and reinstall Vista.
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