No Operating System Detected!

kj4ta · Jul 31, 2003

What could it mean when your screen goes black and you see a line of text that says: "No operating system detected?"
Is my HD bad? It's WinXP.
BTW: It's sporadic... the comp was down on Wednesday, is back today, but did it again this afternoon.

redduc900 · Jul 31, 2003

Unfortunately, it normally means your HDD is about ready to bite the dust. It could also be caused by a loose or bad ribbon cable, loose HDD jumper(s), bad PCI controller card (if you have your HDD connected in this manner), faulty IDE controller, or even a loose molex connector at the HDD.

Heat · Jul 31, 2003

The hard drive may not be responding. Download the hard drive tools and make a boot disk, run the testts, find out the S/N and check warranty status.

kj4ta · Jul 31, 2003

Where do I download the HDD tools from?

redduc900 · Jul 31, 2003

Where do I download the HDD tools from?

From your HDD manufacturer's website...normally found in the "Support" section.

kj4ta · Jul 31, 2003

Thanks you sirs. I just hope it's a cable or something silly like that. I'd hate to have to buy a new one and lose all my info on this.

Tecumseh · Jul 31, 2003

I had and old SCSI system that worked the cable loose once
in a while....same thing: No OS detected.

Make sure your cables are good. IF that doesn't help, move
the drive to another system and see if you can read it there.

Good luck !!

Heat · Jul 31, 2003

You can check the name of the HD in under device manager to give you a clue which hd website to go to.

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