Solved Operating System not found

[woot]

oh gosh...to everyone out there please help...
i was trying to recovery some data on an external drive i have with the tool testdisk
and it asked me to reboot the system...
after that i can't reboot cause it keeps saying me operating system not found
i'm so dumb
is there any way to fix this problem? maybe to restore the system from bios or something like that...
i had some papers for my university degree in my pc and i want them back

thanks in advanced...

 

[SIW2]

You need some kind of bootable media.

On a working pc download and burn to cd PW free boot cd. Partition Wizard Bootable CD allows user to manage partition directly with partition manager bootable CD.

Boot it up on the sick machine.

If you have 100mb partition, rt click it set as Active, ok , apply.

If you don't have 100mb partition - then try setting the main windows partiton Active instead - if that doesn't do it, set the manufacturers recovery partition Active.

 

[windude99]

Do you have a Windows 7 installation cd? If you do, boot your system off of it and when it comes up to the screen saying Windows 7, click on next. Then on the screen, click on repair your computer in the bottom right. It may find errors before you have to select an OS to repair, but if it doesn't, select Windows 7 and press next. Then, click on Startup Repair and let it run. It may take a while depending on what it has to repair.

 

[woot]

Do you have a Windows 7 installation cd? If you do, boot your system off of it and when it comes up to the screen saying Windows 7, click on next. Then on the screen, click on repair your computer in the bottom right. It may find errors before you have to select an OS to repair, but if it doesn't, select Windows 7 and press next. Then, click on Startup Repair and let it run. It may take a while depending on what it has to repair.

no sir it was pre-installed so i don't have any win7 installation disc

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Hiyya woot and welcome

Didn't just so happen to make either a rescue disk or system image by any chance?

I don't know about evryone else but would a safe boot work? - F8 on power up.

Personally I would - only because I can hook the HDD up as an external to another machine and try and get that data off that way - possible?

Um what about that USB install method download the ISO - boot from it and when the screen comes up do a repair?

If you do a factory default though your can kiss the data bye bye. - maybe even Recuva may work even then? as I have used that before Recuva - Undelete, Unerase, File and Disk Recovery - Free Download

 

[SIW2]

Follow instructions in my previous post.

Do you have a Windows 7 installation cd? If you do, boot your system off of it and when it comes up to the screen saying Windows 7, click on next. Then on the screen, click on repair your computer in the bottom right. It may find errors before you have to select an OS to repair, but if it doesn't, select Windows 7 and press next. Then, click on Startup Repair and let it run. It may take a while depending on what it has to repair.

no sir it was pre-installed so i don't have any win7 installation disc

 

[windude99]

Since you don't have an installation cd, just download one of these legal install cds to do the repair: Official Windows 7 SP1 ISO from Digital River « My Digital Life
You can also use the disc to reinstall Windows with a clean install which you may have to do depending on if doing what i and SIW2 said works or not.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Since you don't have an installation cd, just download one of these legal install cds to do the repair: Official Windows 7 SP1 ISO from Digital River « My Digital Life
You can also use the disc to reinstall Windows with a clean install which you may have to do depending on if doing what i and SIW2 said works or not.

Yeah I meant that only I did the same thing using http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2432-usb-windows-7-installation-key-drive-create.html and it worked a treat.

Sorry you other fellows didn't mean to confuse the issue

 

[woot]

You need some kind of bootable media.

On a working pc download and burn to cd PW free boot cd. Partition Wizard Bootable CD allows user to manage partition directly with partition manager bootable CD.

Boot it up on the sick machine.

If you have 100mb partition, rt click it set as Active, ok , apply.

If you don't have 100mb partition - then try setting the main windows partiton Active instead - if that doesn't do it, set the manufacturers recovery partition Active.

sir i did what you said and in the main screen of PW says..

DISK1 Capacity used
*recovery 14 GB 13.92
* 450GB 0

probably means that i erased all the data from my main hard disk (the one in my pc)

yes god now i could die

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Now one last suggestion and I really don't mean to interfere windude and SIW but is there any chance of getting the drive onto another machine as an external and try the Recuva from it?

 

[woot]

wait oh mates..it worked...
i see the data of my hard drive...

it's everything...i can see it on PW

but how can i take them?

 

[windude99]

wait oh mates..it worked...
i see the data of my hard drive...

it's everything...i can see it on PW

but how can i take them?

Is the drive bootable? If not, truy my above suggestion with the Windows install cd.

 

[woot]

wait oh mates..it worked...
i see the data of my hard drive...

it's everything...i can see it on PW

but how can i take them?

Is the drive bootable? If not, truy my above suggestion with the Windows install cd.

just a few questions sir (besides i'm already downloading the installation disc)

i see the partitions now..
i set active the C partition..

but when i'm booting the system it says now BOOTMSG is missing
press ctrl+alt+delete to restart

 

[woot]

gents i made it

the bootmsg file was in different partition so i set active with PW in the partition with the bootmsg file and everything is working alright now with my data...

i can't express how much appreciate your help..

thank you everyone for helping me..

you rule and that's the best forum i've ever been for sure..!

 

[SIW2]

Glad all is ok.

Thanks for letting us know.

 

[woot]

thank you sir your post helped me a lot...

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Great stuff woot glad it got fixed - now do some serious backing up mate!