operating system not found

[emmapayne27]

my laptop crashed and when i rebooted it the msg operating system not found can any1 help me

[rojash]

Check that you didn't leave a floppy disk or CD in the drive.

[chas2008]

yep Rojash , think we have all been there at least once...I once rememeber working for a company that got a so called IT engineer out to fix a similiar problem, took him an hour until he realised it was a floppy still in it..

[emmapayne27]

no there was no discs in it the battery died and when i plugged it in n switched back on the next day that msg came up put in the acer recovery disc and now it says
GDISK (E) No such fixed disk--1

[rojash]

Sounds horribly like your hard disk has failed

[chas2008]

hmm...i was thinking the same...does sound a very strong possibility

[ChuckFickens]

you might be lucky and it's just the master boot record thats had it.

assuming you are using windows XP, boot the computer from the windows XP cd, select R for recovery console when you are give the option and when you get to the command line for the recovery console type "fixmbr" (without quotes" and hit enter

Keep your fingers crossed :)