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  1. Jan 31st, 2004, 05:55 PM #1
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    Exclamation Major Boot up problem! **Urgent**

    This is really crazy!!!! I was using my computer and for some reason needed to restart it(I did a regular restart). Any way it loaded up and said "Operating System not found." I was kinda shocked by this. The OS(XP Pro) never came up ever again.So i figured i would run my system recovery cd and it wouldn't boot from cd. I figured i would try to find a boot disk online with the cdrom drivers. I did this and had to restart again and now when it boots up all i get is a blinking underscore. It still goes through the splash screen and i can load the bios, but after that it is unresponsive. Norton a couple of days ago came up saying it found (something)f.worm virus.
    Any suggestions on what to do?
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  2. Jan 31st, 2004, 05:59 PM #2
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    Can you run in SafeMode?
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  3. Jan 31st, 2004, 06:04 PM #3
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    it doesn't do anything

    it goes through my HP splash screen, but not the OS. when i ran FDisk before, it didn't show any partitions, then i tried a boot disk that had a file to recover lost partitions, and now all i get is the HP splash screen and then a black screen with a blinking _
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    To run in SafeMode i think you press F8 on bootup.

    If you are in really deep s**t go here, www.pcadvisor.co.uk and sign up there, they have computer whiz people there 24/7 who can ALMOST ALWAYS DEFINITELY find an answer to your problem

    If you still get stuck, wait a bit for someone here. Its usually quite now with it been the weekend

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  6. Jan 31st, 2004, 06:06 PM #5
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    ill try that
    thanks, i hope it works
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  7. Jan 31st, 2004, 11:01 PM #6
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    Does the BIOS detect your HDD? If FDISK can't see your partitions then maybe a cable is loose or something.
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  8. Feb 6th, 2004, 01:56 AM #7
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    Originally posted by Ideas Man
    Does the BIOS detect your HDD? If FDISK can't see your partitions then maybe a cable is loose or something.


    Yeah because restarting you machine loosens cables....
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  9. Feb 6th, 2004, 02:02 AM #8
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    No, but they can be very loose and just loose contact.
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