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Compaq Pres. 7360- No operating system found-error
Everytime I try to boot up my elderly Dads pc, after the red Compaq letters,
he gets a "no operating system found" error. I've tried using the quickrestore CD's, but all it does is pop up a screen that says "quickrestore", and just blinks forever and goes no further. I build PC's, so this is really ****ing me off. I tried changing the boot sequence so it will boot from the floppy with a start up disk, but even that won't work. I'd rather not pay Compaq just to tell me my hard drive is broken (you know how they are). The pc is about 3 years old and has Win98SE. Anyone have any answers? Thanks! Carol |
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Is it going thru the POST? Doesn't sound like it is. May be MMB not the HD.
Sorry! -- Jim Nichols From Computers to Coffee Makers www.sgimarketing.com "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke "Carol" wrote in message . .. Everytime I try to boot up my elderly Dads pc, after the red Compaq letters, he gets a "no operating system found" error. I've tried using the quickrestore CD's, but all it does is pop up a screen that says "quickrestore", and just blinks forever and goes no further. I build PC's, so this is really ****ing me off. I tried changing the boot sequence so it will boot from the floppy with a start up disk, but even that won't work. I'd rather not pay Compaq just to tell me my hard drive is broken (you know how they are). The pc is about 3 years old and has Win98SE. Anyone have any answers? Thanks! Carol |
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Carol wrote:
Everytime I try to boot up my elderly Dads pc, after the red Compaq letters, he gets a "no operating system found" error. I've tried using the quickrestore CD's, but all it does is pop up a screen that says "quickrestore", and just blinks forever and goes no further. I build PC's, so this is really ****ing me off. I tried changing the boot sequence so it will boot from the floppy with a start up disk, but even that won't work. I'd rather not pay Compaq just to tell me my hard drive is broken (you know how they are). The pc is about 3 years old and has Win98SE. Anyone have any answers? Thanks! Carol Did you try checking the hard drive parameters in cmos? I've seen computers lockup trying to initialize the HD and not let me boot from floppy either. mike -- Bunch of stuff For Sale and Wanted at the link below. laptops and parts Test Equipment Honda CB-125S Color LCD overhead projector TEK Sampling Sweep Plugin Tek 2465 $800, ham radio, 30pS pulser Tektronix Concept Books, spot welding head... http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Monitor/4710/ |
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If you or your dad made your own startup floppy (not Compaq's recovery
floppy but a real Win98 startup disk), boot up with the floppy and check and see if the OS even recognizes the hard drive. If not, check your CMOS settings and make sure the defaults are loaded. If you're confident using FDISK check the partitioning to make sure there is a valid one. If partitions aren't right Compaq's restore CDs sometimes won't work. However, chances are you need to replace the hard drive. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carol" Newsgroups: alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 2:23 AM Subject: Compaq Pres. 7360- No operating system found-error Everytime I try to boot up my elderly Dads pc, after the red Compaq letters, he gets a "no operating system found" error. I've tried using the quickrestore CD's, but all it does is pop up a screen that says "quickrestore", and just blinks forever and goes no further. I build PC's, so this is really ****ing me off. I tried changing the boot sequence so it will boot from the floppy with a start up disk, but even that won't work. I'd rather not pay Compaq just to tell me my hard drive is broken (you know how they are). The pc is about 3 years old and has Win98SE. Anyone have any answers? Thanks! Carol |
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Are you running windows 98 or ME?
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It sounds to me that the hard drive is gone, but if you are really sure it's o,
try making sure it is configured as calble select (if it still has the original data ribbon cables) instead of master/slave configuration. Some Western Digital hard drives works as Single drive on Compaq computers. |
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