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Operating system not found
Hello,
I'm trying to reinstall WinXP for a friend. I've formatted the drive with windows setup and it appears to have installed XP. When I restart I get this error: Operating system not found. If I go into the BIOS, the hard drive is set to auto, but the laptop does not detect it! The only way I have been able to detect the drive is by putting the windows install disk in... Does anyone have a solution? Thanks, Andrew |
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Change the boot order in bios back to HD first?
"Andrew Clark" wrote in message news:1123029463.ee34eb04c5fd2cb53be00b348201cf4b@t eranews... Hello, I'm trying to reinstall WinXP for a friend. I've formatted the drive with windows setup and it appears to have installed XP. When I restart I get this error: Operating system not found. If I go into the BIOS, the hard drive is set to auto, but the laptop does not detect it! The only way I have been able to detect the drive is by putting the windows install disk in... Does anyone have a solution? Thanks, Andrew |
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"BruceM" wrote in
: Change the boot order in bios back to HD first? Nope, that didn't do it. This laptop has Preboot execution environment. I've never dealt with that before. Could that be fouling the boot sequence up somehow? |
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I could only guess about the Preboot execution environment. Maybe the
laptop is looking for a server to boot from. Is there anyway to turn that off? From what I read, the process is either in a boot disk, or possibly ROM chip and may not even need a hard drive since it uses the server to boot. The hard drive in your setup may not even be set up as a boot device. Check the bios for such boot choices. How exactly did you reformat the hard drive, Fat32 or NTFS, did you use the old partition the other install was in? Is this a new hard drive? If you have decided the Preboot execution environment is not a problem, I would probably reinstall, and make sure what partitions or drives you are looking at. Did the first install go normally as far as you could tell? Did you take the install CD out of the drive? Do you have any other external devices, such as hard drives? Clark "Andrew Clark" wrote in message news:1123031378.97b8aa089ba958bcce17aa0a956eaf16@t eranews... "BruceM" wrote in : Change the boot order in bios back to HD first? Nope, that didn't do it. This laptop has Preboot execution environment. I've never dealt with that before. Could that be fouling the boot sequence up somehow? |
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On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 01:09:38 GMT, Andrew Clark
wrote: "BruceM" wrote in : Change the boot order in bios back to HD first? Nope, that didn't do it. This laptop has Preboot execution environment. I've never dealt with that before. Could that be fouling the boot sequence up somehow? Yes, it's possible but that's treated like just another potential boot item, you should have the appropriate drive controller set to be the first (or 2nd, considering the optical drive) boot controller and the drive the first boot device. On a properly working bios the PXE would time-out if it didn't find anything and then move onto the next boot controller in the bios list. SO, either your bios is buggy (which is possible) or that's not the problem. Why are you trying to install XP? Did the notebook have problems, perhaps problems with the drive? You might consider running the HDD manufacturer's diagnostics to determine if it checks out ok. |
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"BruceM" wrote in message ... Change the boot order in bios back to HD first? "Andrew Clark" wrote in message news:1123029463.ee34eb04c5fd2cb53be00b348201cf4b@t eranews... Hello, I'm trying to reinstall WinXP for a friend. I've formatted the drive with windows setup and it appears to have installed XP. When I restart I get this error: Operating system not found. If I go into the BIOS, the hard drive is set to auto, but the laptop does not detect it! The only way I have been able to detect the drive is by putting the windows install disk in... Does anyone have a solution? Thanks, Andrew I had exactly the same problem when trying to install XP on a relatively old PC where I upgraded the hard disk from Maxtor 30 GB to Maxtor 80 GB. I think I tried every option to solve the problem (including posting in this group), but could not terminate the XP install. I then reinstalled the old 30 GB disk in the system and could only successfully do the installation after having booted from a Win98 diskette, deleted all partitions, and rebooted from the XP install CD. So finally I believe the bios was not able to recognize a HD larger than 30 GB and unfortunately the motherboard manufacturer (FastFame, mobo 3VAAV) does not exist any longer. And I was not ready to pay for the download of a new bios when not sure it should solve the problem. |
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"Clark" wrote in
t: I could only guess about the Preboot execution environment. Maybe the laptop is looking for a server to boot from. Is there anyway to turn that off? From what I read, the process is either in a boot disk, or possibly ROM chip and may not even need a hard drive since it uses the server to boot. The hard drive in your setup may not even be set up as a boot device. Check the bios for such boot choices. How exactly did you reformat the hard drive, Fat32 or NTFS, did you use the old partition the other install was in? Is this a new hard drive? If you have decided the Preboot execution environment is not a problem, I would probably reinstall, and make sure what partitions or drives you are looking at. Did the first install go normally as far as you could tell? Did you take the install CD out of the drive? Do you have any other external devices, such as hard drives? Clark I have no idea on how to turn PXE off. Searching for it came up with virtually no help. Though the hard drive is in the boot list: it was after 'Removable Devices' and 'CD ROM' but even moving it to first in the boot order did not do the trick. When I got it, I confirmed what my friend told me: that he would boot up and get 'Operating system not found.' I decided it was a bad install and since there was nothing on the drive, reinstalled Windows. I booted from the XP install disk and was able to see the drive, blow away the old partition and create a new one, and follow the rest of the install. When it rebooted after the install, same problem. The computer is a HP ze5500 laptop. |
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kony wrote in
: Yes, it's possible but that's treated like just another potential boot item, you should have the appropriate drive controller set to be the first (or 2nd, considering the optical drive) boot controller and the drive the first boot device. On a properly working bios the PXE would time-out if it didn't find anything and then move onto the next boot controller in the bios list. SO, either your bios is buggy (which is possible) or that's not the problem. Why are you trying to install XP? Did the notebook have problems, perhaps problems with the drive? You might consider running the HDD manufacturer's diagnostics to determine if it checks out ok. I noticed in the BIOS that the hard drive is not able to be auto detected. It is set to auto right now, but where the specs for the drive should be, it says 'None.' I don't know why the XP install disk can see the drive but the BIOS cannot. |
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On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 13:23:10 GMT, Andrew Clark
wrote: kony wrote in : Yes, it's possible but that's treated like just another potential boot item, you should have the appropriate drive controller set to be the first (or 2nd, considering the optical drive) boot controller and the drive the first boot device. On a properly working bios the PXE would time-out if it didn't find anything and then move onto the next boot controller in the bios list. SO, either your bios is buggy (which is possible) or that's not the problem. Why are you trying to install XP? Did the notebook have problems, perhaps problems with the drive? You might consider running the HDD manufacturer's diagnostics to determine if it checks out ok. I noticed in the BIOS that the hard drive is not able to be auto detected. It is set to auto right now, but where the specs for the drive should be, it says 'None.' I don't know why the XP install disk can see the drive but the BIOS cannot. It sounds like a logical problem then, perhaps some bios setting(s) (but I dont' know which one(s)) need changed. Had you changed any bios settings? Is this the original drive the laptop shipped with? You might try clearing CMOS. |
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"Andrew Clark" wrote in message
news:1123075390.a5ed4cdb4cbb5958a14ef32462e69137@t eranews... kony wrote in : Yes, it's possible but that's treated like just another potential boot item, you should have the appropriate drive controller set to be the first (or 2nd, considering the optical drive) boot controller and the drive the first boot device. On a properly working bios the PXE would time-out if it didn't find anything and then move onto the next boot controller in the bios list. SO, either your bios is buggy (which is possible) or that's not the problem. Why are you trying to install XP? Did the notebook have problems, perhaps problems with the drive? You might consider running the HDD manufacturer's diagnostics to determine if it checks out ok. I noticed in the BIOS that the hard drive is not able to be auto detected. It is set to auto right now, but where the specs for the drive should be, it says 'None.' I don't know why the XP install disk can see the drive but the BIOS cannot. Some laptop PCs actually use a hidden part of the HDD to contain parts of what would normally be stored in a standard motherboards EEPROM/CMOS BIOS Chip. This means that OS upgrades can be a "do it the manufacturers way or don't do it at all" scenario. The easiest way to get XP installed on this laptop might be to consult with HP tech support over whether an XP recovery CD is avail for this unit. PXE basically means that the network card or controller is used as a boot device in conjunction with a server. If the laptops BIOS makes no mention of disabling network booting or PXE settings, sometimes there are certain key combinations that can be used at POST to get into the NIC controllers settings - again the tech support people would know about this. Additionally the laptop manual should contain info about this. Paul |
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