Today I turned on my computer & got the Emachine logo and shortly thereafter, the message that "no operating system found". Was convinced my hard drive failed. Checked Google for help. Found your suggestion to unplug and then replug the wide cable ribbon, motherboard to hard drive. Restarted computer and damm near fell out of my chair when the computer went right to win XP. I was minutes away from trashing the computer. Thank you very much.
it was on my pc so I'm pretty sure it was windows7 if that's the newest one... only had the f'n thing for 5 months
Hi Oksana... I'm sorry I cant help but I did a quick google search of "no operating system found" and found tons of information. Here are some links.
http://forums.techguy.org/windows-xp/576907-no-operating-system-found.html
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic73297.html
http://forums.windrivers.com/showthread.php?t=65027
Also, do you have a boot disk that came with your computer?
I've had hard drives crash after having them for a day. Not much you can do if that's the case.
Try this:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/20864-mbr-restore-windows-7-master-boot-record.html
I'd take it back to the store if possible, let them open it up and do the work instead of you.
If you do take it back to the store and they say the hard drive is the problem, they will probably either reformat it or give you a new hard drive so in both cases you lose everything you have on the old one. If the files are really important get them to stick a new one in and buy the existing one from them (at a good a discount as you can get) so you can recover the files yourself. I've had a few HD failures and have never been unable to recover the files I wanted.
I use Chrome here, only image issue is the little images that are supposed to show up next to each forum on the main forum page (http://gamelive.com/forum/forum.php) They don't show up at all in Chrome - they do in IE and Firefox.
Here's what I see on the main page. That first icon is what I'm seeing everywhere in threads here.