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Crash!

May 27, 2004 10:23PM PDT

I am using XP Home edition. When I rebooted this morning, I got this message: "Missing Operating System. Insert Boot Disk into Drive A". Any idea what happened? (So I can prevent this from happening again.) Do I have to reformat and start over? (Please say no!) I use Norton Anti-virus & it was up to date. Thanks for the help.

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Re:Crash!
May 27, 2004 10:30PM PDT

what you can do is put in the xp cd boot off it and do a repair but i dont think you will be happy but try it cant hurt

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Re:Re:Crash!
May 27, 2004 11:42PM PDT

Its worth a shot. Thanks.