Came to work yesterday to discover our Lenovo ThinkCentre with a black screen and the message "Operating System not found" (or something to that effect). After several attempts to reboot the computer, and searching frantically for Windows 7 Pro boot/repair disks that I'm pretty sure I never had in the first place, I contacted Lenovo Support.
I knew there was a partition in the HD intended to be used to repair if the computer crashed, but there was no way to access it. Even went into BIOS, but couldn't find a way in. So the Lenovo Support agent sent me boot disks. Credit to them, got them the next day...was expecting them after the weekend, really.
When I realized the disks had arrived early, I cleared my afternoon schedule, expecting a tedious process of repairing whatever corrupted files had caused the problem. I turned on the PC, opened the DVD drive, inserted the disk, and then realized that Windows had started up...WITHOUT THE DISK!
Somehow, the HD had corrected itself. I did see a message, "Configuring Windows...", so I figured something had been reset.
My question is this: Do I NOT look a gift horse in the mouth or do I? The computer is running perfectly, just like it was 2 days ago. Is there a corrupted file that needs fixing still? Is my machine going to repeat this stunt? Or was it acting like my car...faking a problem to see if I still cared about it enough to take it to the mechanic?
At least now I have the disks...
I knew there was a partition in the HD intended to be used to repair if the computer crashed, but there was no way to access it. Even went into BIOS, but couldn't find a way in. So the Lenovo Support agent sent me boot disks. Credit to them, got them the next day...was expecting them after the weekend, really.
When I realized the disks had arrived early, I cleared my afternoon schedule, expecting a tedious process of repairing whatever corrupted files had caused the problem. I turned on the PC, opened the DVD drive, inserted the disk, and then realized that Windows had started up...WITHOUT THE DISK!
Somehow, the HD had corrected itself. I did see a message, "Configuring Windows...", so I figured something had been reset.
My question is this: Do I NOT look a gift horse in the mouth or do I? The computer is running perfectly, just like it was 2 days ago. Is there a corrupted file that needs fixing still? Is my machine going to repeat this stunt? Or was it acting like my car...faking a problem to see if I still cared about it enough to take it to the mechanic?
At least now I have the disks...