Missing operating system" on boot up.... Hey guys, I've been working with this PC for a few months now no problems. But i just got home from a LAN that i went to and when i tried to boot for the first time i got a "Missing operating system error". The first...

got the whole picture (the first part of your message never mentioned the 'missing operating system' message), but I have a few suggestions. First, it may help if you'd post a complete hardware inventory of the system, including make and model on the motherboard...

when I turn computer on, most of the time it will not pick the hard drive up and display "missing operating system" or "boot failure" message. 1 out of roughly 5 times it will boot fine and computer will operate with no problems. I have tested the hard drive...

memory 3 Samsung SATA HD in RAID 5 configuration Windows 7 64-bit. Just updated to BIOS version F12 and system will not boot. Says I am missing the operating system. The unit is configured with 3 RAID HD's and the BIOS reports that the first disk is not a...

of FAT32 seeing NTFS partitions, nor of NTFS seeing FAT32 partitions. It's the operating system that sees partitions, not the partition themselves or the file systems on them. Second, Windows XP, whether Home or Professional, can see any and all...

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...

how to fix it > ended with the boot floppy. > So now I am stuck and looking for a fix! > Thanks for the help. >> See this article: "Operating System Not Found" or "Missing operating system" error message when you start your Windows XP-based...

operating system. So i i put all 1 and 2 boot priorties on CDROM and 3rd boot priority on harddisk. Was having a problem booting from disk before missing operating system , thats why i loaded BIOS defaults so maybe i could boot from disk , now i dont have choice...

error loading operating system". Archived from groups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips () Hi, need help please. I have a XP operating system and was in good condition until i add a old hard drive (Windows 4.0 i think). and the computer he boot in this hard...