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My wife bought a refurbished windows laptop and is now getting a message saying, "Operating system not found".
She has just downloaded all her Christmas photos and is very worried that she may not be able to recover them.
Any advice welcome.
Hi Dave. I wouldn't be in a panic yet. My first check would be to see if the PC is trying to boot from another source (usb stick, or cd etc). If you have either in place remove and try a re-boot.
Thank askids. No other sources in place. I did a quick search online and I think the hard drive has conked out. I just hope we can recover the pics from the memory cards.
The laptop was bought as refurbished and too late for a refund. i hope to get a repair or replacement from supplier.
Wife noit having a lot of luck with technology. Bought herself a Nexus 7 tablet, it was wonderful till she realised that the camera is not on the back so is only really good for selfies.
That has gone back to Amazon though.
Worth a check. I've had a partition go on a hard drive and a was able to save the data by hooking up to another PC so hopefully all can be saved. Good luck.
If it were me I'd whip out the little hard drive and plug it into one of my other compootahs to read all the data off safely ... then stick it back into the laptop and try to awaken it again.
Safety first, get the important stuff off if possible.
Mind you ... I'm not sure I have anything lying around to plug a laptop drive into ... might have to send away for something or an external caddy for it.
It sounds like the Master Boot Record is corrupt. As has been stated, you should be able to rescue it by doing a software repair. Do you have an installation (Windows) CD? If so, try booting from that.
Stephen
A camera takes a picture. A photographer makes a picture
You could try downloading a free Linux distribution like 'Knoppix', which runs 'live' of the CD. You could then try mounting the HD and inspecting its contents. You'd give a command in a terminal window like:
'mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt'
You then:
'cd /mnt'
To change to the directory where the HD is mounted.
then:
'ls -l'
To list its contents.
It sounds complicated, but it isn't and won't affect any data on the HD
You could try downloading a free Linux distribution like 'Knoppix', which runs 'live' of the CD. You could then try mounting the HD and inspecting its contents. You'd give a command in a terminal window like:
'mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt'
You then:
'cd /mnt'
To change to the directory where the HD is mounted.
then:
'ls -l'
To list its contents.
It sounds complicated, but it isn't and won't affect any data on the HD
Jim
You could also download the latest version Ubuntu or Kubuntu etc. Do it on another PC, then create a boot USB stick or CD. Boot from this like Jim suggested. But you should be able to see and copy files from the hard disk with the file manager, without messing with magical commands. They will be automatically mounted. That is, if the disk is more or less OK.
The Windows repair disk is simpler though if you have one.
Oh and next time, back valuable stuff up. (backup: smiley)
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