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by adr1817

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Have a Windows ME as O/S and when I turned on my laptop, it's saying that "Missing Operating System". The following steps I did to fix; inserted a boot disk and fdisk and create a new partition and set it active and reboot my system, I'm still getting the same error message " Missing Operating System". Do I need a restore CD or install the O/S to fix this problem?

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by jwilczyn

When you created a new partition - all what you had on HD is gone. You need to reinstall your O/S to fix this problem. You may need to start from formatting HD using your boot disk and then installing system.

by spn

Yes, if you Fdisked the HHD you killed your system.unless you had unpartioned space and zapped that.any way best bet would be to use a boot disk and get to a dos promte once there type "c:"
then "dir"
if that shows clean reinstall from scratch.
(note i would be carefull in future either something got corrupt in the os or someone may have killed it manually)

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