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Windows XP/2000 - no op system posted in the Operating Systems forums; Hi, My sisters laptop, Medion microstar has packed in. When I boot it up it says no operating system. I have no recovery disks to help me sort it out ...

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Hi,

My sisters laptop, Medion microstar has packed in.
When I boot it up it says no operating system.
I have no recovery disks to help me sort it out - my own for my PC don't work.
I have tried to copy floppy boots to CD and run them - no joy.
I have tried to the windows set up disk - The laptop tells me there has been an error and wont run xp set up. The blue screen thing happens.

Can someone help?

I thought I'd nothing more to do that run the xp set up/ format and or partition the drive and install xp.

Thanks in advance.

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Hi and welcome to the forum

Sounds like it could be your hard drive. Can you remove the hard drive and tell us the exact make and model number.


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Hi Hengis,

How are you? Thanks for your reply.

I haven't opened the laptop, (yet) but can get into the bios setup, (I'm not too techy btw). In the set up it says....

Hitachi_DK23ea-20-(PM)

Does this make sense. If not I'll get the screw driver out.

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I'm good thanks for asking

Ok, download and run this: http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/...ess-Test.shtml - it will create a bootable floppy disk that will allow you to fully check the health of the hard drive.


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I'll try that but the laptop doesn't have a floppy drive. Only a cd rw drive.

Can I download the files for the floppy and copy them to cd. If so how will this info boot. The laptop will boot fromm a cd. The problem may be that I don't know how to run stuff from dos.

I'll away and down load for now.

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I have downloaded the software you suggested and copied it to a cd. I have to run another CD I had to get the CD rw to workj and get a dos prompt.

I have now put the downloaded Cd in and typed <DIR> and I have....

ASPI <DIR>
AAUTOEXEC BAT
COMMAND COM
CONFIG SYS
DATA <DIR>
DFT <DIR>
DOS <DIR>


Can you tell me how to get the utility running.

Thanks again.

Johnnypict.



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