Vanishing OS

[yonormski]

Have an Advent laptop running vista which was working fine 1 week ago when last shut down. Turned on today, and informed that there was no OS installed.
I am thinking hard disk problem, but am not able to access settings to investigate further.
Is a big ask but any ideas folks...thnx

 

[Archean]

If you are quoting the message correctly it means that probably the boot sector has been damaged.

You need to repair it, and Microsoft has given a detailed guide about how to go about it. I hope this will help alleviate your problem.

Once (and hopefully successful) this repair completes, don't forget to update you AntiVirus software and run a system scan; also download malwarebytes, and run it after installation, to ensure your system is clean.

Please let me know if I can be of any further help. Regards

 

[yonormski]

Ty Archean, project on hold

After inserting vista disk (not the OEM) it started ok, but stopped shortly and said the laptop was missing drivers.Luckily my friend has Advent driver disk which i am waiting for in the post. Hopefully this will enable me to run repair.