Re: os wont start up

WHERE ARE YOUR BACKUPS?

Basically, you are probably screwed.

Very likely, you have no choice but to reload Windows from scratch
(however you do it, there are many ways, but you will need media and a
product key (either or both of which you may have to buy).

It would be interesting to remove the hard drive from the computer and
look at it on another computer. There might also be ways of restoring
it if you did that. That said, if you knew enough to do that, you
wouldn't be asking the questions that you are asking. You are likely to
need professional assistance.


sion wrote:
> hey guys,
> my girlfriends dad has a acer travelmate 2480 running on windows Xp not
> sure if 32 or 64 should think 32bit, he was useing it the other day, and
> it pops up with saying he has a virus, so he clicked it, it then delted
> avg, then saying he has a virus in something "cmd" and delted it and he
> turned it off, accer screen loadup... but takes ages to go off that
> screen, once it does get off it, it loads up with,
>
> "
> PXE-E61: media test failure, check cable ((WHAT cable?))
> PXE-M0F: exiting PXE ROM
> Operating system not found
> "
>
> and just sits there...
> it didnt come with any back up cd's or anything, there is no way that
> you can preform like a reboot that i know off...
>
> Any ideas?
>
>

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sion typed on Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:25:53 -0500:
> basickly,,, tryed reformating it with windows 7 didnt have none of it,

Hi! What did it say? It couldn't find a hard drive, or what?

> then tryed windows xp, it come out with setup did not find any hard
> disk drives installed in your computer,, does this mean that that the
> hard drive is knackerd and if i replaced it... it would work?

It depends on a lot of things. First, which OS came with the computer?
Also knowing the make and model would help us a lot. And I am thinking
the first thing to know is whether it is using a SATA drive or not. As
that could give no hard drive error when you try to install Windows XP.
Windows 7 or even Vista shouldn't have a problem. But for XP, many BIOS
you can be set up in ATA mode and then it will work. Do you know how to
get into the BIOS Setup?

--
Bill
Gateway MX6124 ('06 era) - Windows XP SP2

If Win7 or Vista did find the hard drive, but XP didn't, it means you
need an "F6 Driver" because XP doesn't natively recognize SATA drives.
There may be an Emulation option in the BIOS.


sion wrote:
> basickly,,, tryed reformating it with windows 7 didnt have none of it,
> then tryed windows xp, it come out with setup did not find any hard disk
> drives installed in your computer,, does this mean that that the hard
> drive is knackerd and if i replaced it... it would work?
>
>