Operative system not found
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Hi all, I have win95 installed on my PC. It has been working fine. Today when I reboot the machine efter some initialization I got the message "Operative system not found". Why I get this message, what has happened to my machine? What I remember is that I did clean the place near the computer which might have caused that some cable gets loose, may this cause the error I get? or there is something else I have to check. Please help me in this regard. regards /rsasalm
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Hi all, I have win95 installed on my PC. It has been working fine. Today when I reboot the machine efter some initialization I got the message "Operative system not found". Why I get this message, what has happened to my machine? What I remember is that I did clean the place near the computer which might have caused that some cable gets loose, may this cause the error I get? or there is something else I have to check. Please help me in this regard. regards /rsasalm
You may well have bumped a cable loose - crack the case open and give them a wiggle. I've seen this message once, when I stupidly forgot to plug in the IDE cable to the drive in a system I was overhauling. You could also have a damaged MBR on the drive, or the drive controller may be loose (if it's separate from the motherboard). Checking the integrity of all internal cables (both ends) and jumpers is a good first step. "My child was Inmate of the Month at Mohave County Jail" - Bumper Sticker in Bullhead City, AZ
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Hi all, I have win95 installed on my PC. It has been working fine. Today when I reboot the machine efter some initialization I got the message "Operative system not found". Why I get this message, what has happened to my machine? What I remember is that I did clean the place near the computer which might have caused that some cable gets loose, may this cause the error I get? or there is something else I have to check. Please help me in this regard. regards /rsasalm
Step 1: check whether you have a floppy disk in the A drive. If you have, remove it and reboot. Step 2: remember when you partioned the disk, did you make one partition active? If you did not, the system does not know where to boot from. To rectify, boot from a floppy that has fdisk, run fdisk and set the partiction active. My article on a reference-counted smart pointer that supports polymorphic objects and raw pointers