I’ve recently had trouble booting my dell inspiron 2650, under Windows XP. Occasioanlly the laptop will boot normally, while other times it is unable to boot; giving the error “os not found”. The boot manager is shown attemting to load an operating system, but finally display’s that simple error message. After a random number (sometimes many) of re-boots the system will finally load windows xp normally, as if there was no problems (even resumes from standby or hybernation mode). The HD indicator light always blinks at startup.
I formatted the entire harddisk and re installed windows xp, however this has not fixed the peoblem as it still takes many re-boots before the laptop loads the os. Is this just a sign of a failing hard disk? Any ideas as to what the problem could be are welcome? Many thanks in advance.