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andyL   06-30-2004 at 10:30:01 AM

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just upgraded pc by putting in bigger hd, the one i removed had xp on it. Tried booting up with disk in and out.Then get message on black screen:-
searching for boot record from IDE-O..OK
MISSING OPERATING SYSTEM

So i went into the bios and changed the 1st boot to cd-rom from IDE-O, 2ND Boot is floppy,3rd boot is IDE-O, having saved changes i then get, cd-rom not found, floppy not found, IDE-O..OK, could somebody please help

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Anonymous   06-30-2004 at 02:41:39 PM
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"Operating System Not Found" Error Message When You Start the Computer
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"andyl" <andyl@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message:
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| just upgraded pc by putting in bigger hd, the one i removed had xp on it. Tried booting up with disk in and
out.Then get message on black screen:-
| searching for boot record from IDE-O..OK
| MISSING OPERATING SYSTEM
|
| So i went into the bios and changed the 1st boot to cd-rom from IDE-O, 2ND Boot is floppy,3rd boot is
IDE-O, having saved changes i then get, cd-rom not found, floppy not found, IDE-O..OK, could somebody please
help

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andyL   07-01-2004 at 09:03:01 AM
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thanks carey, up and running now





"andyl" wrote:

> just upgraded pc by putting in bigger hd, the one i removed had xp on it. Tried booting up with disk in and out.Then get message on black screen:-
> searching for boot record from IDE-O..OK
> MISSING OPERATING SYSTEM
>
> So i went into the bios and changed the 1st boot to cd-rom from IDE-O, 2ND Boot is floppy,3rd boot is IDE-O, having saved changes i then get, cd-rom not found, floppy not found, IDE-O..OK, could somebody please help

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