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Resolved Question

"Missing Operating System"

Dec 16, 2011 5:39AM PST

I have a 6 year old Toshiba M55 with XP.
I received a "Fail to write" error and the computer rebooted and when it came on all I got was "Missing Operating System"

I could just use the system disks that came with the laptop, but that would reformat the drive and there is one file I will have to recover before I can do that.

I found this:
http://download.cnet.com/BartPE-Bootable-Live-Windows-CD-DVD/3000-2094_4-10611131.html

and was able to make a disk from another XP machine, but when it starts up, it is looking to start from the "A" drive!!

Any ideas ??

Thanks !

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Use the other method then.
Dec 16, 2011 5:43AM PST
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WOO HOO !!!
Dec 16, 2011 8:48AM PST

So far, so good !!

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Good to read. AFTER THE FILES ARE SAFE try this.
Dec 16, 2011 8:54AM PST

Boot your XP SP2 or later CD and head to the recovery console to CHKDSK C: Here's a link about

http://able2know.org/topic/67642-1

This includes the other commands but let's start with CHKDSK

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All done
Dec 16, 2011 9:15PM PST

Flies recovered and reloaded computer as it was new.

Definitely going to keep that Ubuntu disk in the file now too !!
Thanks !!

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Well prepared and well armed.
Dec 17, 2011 2:46AM PST

Or is that vice versa? Anyhow, thanks for the report.
Bob