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by doug m.

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I had this error msg. appear after the machine booted up "operating system not found". I've tried reloading the OS onto the machine and it appears to be successful until I reboot than I get the very same message. Any ideas? The OS is WIN2K btw. I ran a generic disk utility that said the HD is ok, but I'm not convinced.

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by house

...as well as the auto detect ide settings

master/slave jumper settings could cause these issues too

by dafe2

The OS doesn't have to be on your boot drive.

If the boot partition has a diferent drive letter than the system partition it would give you that letter.

Re-installing windows wouldn't solve the problem...but a parralel install or a clean install would.

Good Luck

by doug m.

It was the BIOS boot device setting, which somehow got changed. All is well now, thanks.

by deepsand

This is a tech. problem, in search of a solution.

It properly belongs in "Technical Q&A," not in "Discussions."

Please re-post there.

Thank you.

by deepsand

The structure of TR, particularly that button for posting comments to articles, does nothing to guide posters to the correct forum.

This is a problem that has been addressed in several discussions, with no resolution in sight.
TR seems to be reluctant to make the site "more complex."

by deepsand

The structure of TR, particularly that button for posting comments to articles, does nothing to guide posters to the correct forum.

This is a problem that has been addressed in several discussions, with no resolution in sight.
TR seems to be reluctant to make the site "more complex."

by house

If you submit a post and it says "page could not be found"... odds are, it was received anyways.

by house

might not even be a specified boot device.

I imagine that was the case, considering he had to go in there.

[i]who the champ?? that's right... me's the champ!![/i]

by house

you left out "the" and "ass"

That's [b]the floor[/b] and [b]my ass[/b] you're talking about.

;)

by deepsand

I just noticed that it happened again this morning. I do recall that I had no APPARENT submission problems, and therefore no cause to "re-submit."

Stranger and stranger!

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