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OS not found

Started by Lone Wolf , Apr 26 2005 04:57 AM

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Posted 26 April 2005 - 04:57 AM

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A friend has just been in touch with me regarding his PC. He says, "operating system not found"... and a big black screen, is what his laptop says to him when he tries to turn it on. He's been shutting it down a restarting it, but it apppears to be completely random on the number of times he has to do this before it actually turns itself on.

Any ideas guys?
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Posted 26 April 2005 - 05:02 AM

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Does it run if you boot with the XP CD in, if so, click start then run then type sfc /scannow then press enter to replace system files
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