Operating System not found on Laptop

[Miltongomes]

I have a laptop that see's "operating system not found" and when I tried to enter the setup to see if my HDD was recognized, but there was a password on the bios I had removed the battery and now I do not know if the settings to make outside of the date and time, because so far the hard drive is still not recognized and not seen in the setup screen and when I boot the machine with Xp cd 1 it copies the files but afterwards it said CEUC "Setup did not detect any hard drive installed" it asks me to "make sure if the readers disk drive are connected and looked at the hardware configuration linked to the disk is correct "and" pragram Setup can not continue to exit the program press f3. Please help me. Thanks

[EINSTEIN_007]

This querrie has been asked here a number of times. So See suggestions given in similar type of threads: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-set...ll/1111490.htm
Error "Operating System not found"
http://forums.techarena.in/operating-systems/894676.htm
http://forums.techarena.in/operating-systems/892742.htm

[newtech]

back into the BIOS and loading default settings ...
You'd find something like: Load Default Values
you have to save and restart.
now back again in the bios
in the Primary IDE, is your hard drive recognized?

[nitesh mehta]

First can the drive in the laptop be detected in the bios? You can purchase an adapter to hook it up to a pc also.

http://www.baber.com/drives/internal...versionkit.htm

Try booting from a CD that will read an NTFS drive. Here's link that you need:

http://www.ntfs.com/boot-disk.htm

If you cannot "see" drive, it might be dead. However, to be sure, remove it and connect to an XP or 2000 PC using adapter referred to in first answer.

If drive is dead, there are those who recover data from failed drives. As long as platters are intact, success is virtually guaranteed. Usually starts at about $800.00. Then they can determine just how valuable data is.

[Zachary]

If you have checked and don't have a floppy or CD in a bay, you might try Last Known Good Configuration. Hit the F8 key at bootup and select the LKGC from the options. Since you have already check the BIOS, the next thing I can think of is to check your hard drive. You can probably find a diagnostics tool on the web site of your brand hard drive.