Lost OS

[itnewbee]

Well I finally got XP loaded on a machine that I am using for testing. It was up and running, I was on the web researching, so I know it was working. Next time I turned it on I got an error saying OS not found on a black screen. I check the specs and though it may have ran slow it was still capable of handling XP How is it there one day gone the next? Thanks for any info

 

[SNGX1275]

Sounds odd. BIOS looking in the correct place for the OS? As in you don't have it set up to only boot off a cd or floppy right?

Got a live linux cd you can boot from to ensure the data is still on the drive? Could run a fixboot or fixmbr from the recovery console after booting off the XP disk probably.

 

[itnewbee]

Thanks I'll take a look at the BIOS when I get home. No linux cd in my collection.

 

[allmightypuff]

sng is right, although usually windows when installed will set the bios on this setting already, unless its a really old pc.