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Jules S

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Registered: 24th Dec 03
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30th Dec 11 at 22:50

Operating system not found

I can't seem to get any system backup on boot up either

Any ideas?

TPM seems to be AWOL

mattievRS

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Registered: 20th May 06
Location: Leicester
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30th Dec 11 at 22:53

it should have a restore partition if its a hp. switch it on and hold F9 ( i think) till it boots to the boot manager screen then select it to boot from the restore part of the hdd.

mattievRS

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Location: Leicester
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30th Dec 11 at 22:55

sorry its f10 from switching it on.

Jules S

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30th Dec 11 at 22:58

Yep

Tried F10 then F9 to default settings

Reboot says bios not found grrr

mattievRS

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Location: Leicester
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30th Dec 11 at 23:02

have you tried to change the order in which the laptop boots up? Ie select the small partition on the hdd to get it to boot from the restore data?

Jules S

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30th Dec 11 at 23:05

Tbh I'm a bit of an it numpty

Problem is none of the function keys work apart from F10 on boot. Ignore them all and I get Os not found

kazazza

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Registered: 5th Oct 09
Location: Herne Bay, Kent
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30th Dec 11 at 23:38

Do you have a Windows 7 (or whatever OS your running) CD? Have you tried simply formatting and starting fresh? Or is that something you need to avoid doing?

Sam

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Registered: 24th Dec 99
Location: West Midlands
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31st Dec 11 at 14:17

MBR (master boot record) is probably corrupt, or your hard drive is dead. The former is usually down to a boot sector virus, the latter just general hard drive failure.

Jules S

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Registered: 24th Dec 03
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1st Jan 12 at 00:41

Well,

The missus turned it on this morning. Hit f11 on boot, restored it to last week and all was well.

4 hours later it went into limp mode then blank with 'operating system not found'

Again.

I'll have a memory stick handy next time it works

Sam

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Registered: 24th Dec 99
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1st Jan 12 at 16:21

Might be a boot sector virus.

fred7

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Registered: 17th May 04
Location: Rugeley, Staffordshire
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1st Jan 12 at 19:43

not got a spare hdd to hand with another OS on boot off that get ya files off (scan them first) then just reboot off the HDD with a clean install

Jules S

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Registered: 24th Dec 03
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1st Jan 12 at 19:55

Got it going this morning. 20 minutes later it turned itself off and won't boot now for love nor money

Anybody know a decent place around Bristol who can look at it?

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