HP Laptop won't boot from hard drive 'No operating system found'

[reles]

Hello folks,

Any help appreciated! I am stcuk with a HP nx9005 laptop that will not boot from it's Hard drive. It will boot fine from either floppy or CD, but after running fdisk - I get 'no fixed disks present'. If I boot into a CD and run a new XP installation, I get to 'see' the hard drive; and it is properly recognised 27Gb NTFS etc.. I have tried swapping the HDU and rebuilding an OS to no avail, once past the format and initial text install the PC restarts and I'm back where I started - as soon as it tries to boot from the Hard drive it fails - goes to PXE boot and I get 'No operating System found'... Please HELP!!!!!! I'm getting v.V. frustrated!

 

[micker377]

Use fdisk, and see what is on the hard drive now. Post back with what partition(s) it lists, and whether it is active and formated. Remember, fdisk won't read NTFS, it will show "non-DOS" partition.

 

[19753]

check bios to see if hard drive is showing up

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