No operating system found

Try booting up with a dos disk, then check to see if your Windows directory is still there, if so, it would appear that reinstalling windows staright on top of the current setup should fix this.

Hi,
It sounds like a possible hard dive problem as opposed to one with the operating system.
When it tells you "no operating system found" does it ask you to "insert a system disk and press any key to continue"? If so, then boot from a startup disk and use some of the utilities (scandisk etc.) both on the disk and the ramdrive area (probley assigned "D") to check out the condition of your drive. Even if you try to re-install Windows, it should tell you right away if everything is o.k. to go,because it's going to do a Scandisk first.

HI. You can boot the computer with a Win 98 boot disk. Make sure a copy of FDISK is on the boot disk just in case the file is corrupted on the hard drive.

After the system boot and your sitting at

a:>
see if you can change to your "C" drive
a:>c:
If you can, type
c:\dir
If you can see your root directory and it doesn't look corrupted with weird little boxes or squiggleys then probably you files are still there. If it all looks OK, see if you can back up any files that you may want saved. Then you can try restoring the master boot record.

type
c:\path = c:\windows\command
type
c:\fdisk /mbr
This should restore the master boot record from a backup if it hasn't been messed up.

Then restart the computer. If that was the problem, it should boot. If fdisk is not found in the c:\windows\command path then change the path statement to:
c:\path = a:
you could also just switch back to a:\ and run the fdisk command from there. Sounds like you could have a virus or hard disk damage. HTH

You've already received some excellent answers (particularly the third) but one other thing to consider is that if your CMOS battery goes dead and the CMOS forgets your hard drive parameters, you can also get this type of error.

So, just one morething to check.

paul

It could be that your system files have become corrupted. Boot from a windows 98 boot disk then type at the a: drive sys c: it might then ask you if you want to overwrite the current files, answer yes to this. Then reboot your system without the sytem disk you should be able to boot normally

p.s make sure you have the file sys.com on your windows 98 boot disk

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