operating system not found yeah i got it too...
Ok. well from the looks of these forums around the same topic as mine
"operating system not found" Ican tell im not the only one who has had or is having this problem. However my problem seems to be just slightly different.
So I reformated my Dell inspiron 1501 the other day.(which I'll admitt I might have done something very wrong, but I dont recall doing anything odd more then pressing enter on something in BOOT inside BIOS)well the pc started doing everything as it should.And when it was finished I removed the Vista reinstallation DVD and as it re-started it came up :
pxe.e e61 media (something) failure. check cable (which cable) PXE.m0f:exiting broadcom PXE Rom ,and then those lovely words Operating system not found.
so I turned the pc off (guess I was hoping it would go away by its self.welll wrong BUT instead)I placed the same cd back in and I came in to the normal screen and everything is or seems fine.
Computer works great AS LONG AS THE CD IS IN. so I checked in Computer Management thinking I by mistake put att the info on just the D drive instead of C, or something.but everthing is where it should be or well nothing looks out-of-place to me. I'm scared of removing the disc while pc is in use, and from reading other peoples problems well now im frightend. they are going threw horriable things at least my pc was embty when it happened. I have tried to reinstall vista again but the problem re-occurs.
Please help me I have NO idea what to do, and I have absolutelt no one to turn to but you guys. please help!!!!!
Try to disable PXE in the BIOS
Sounds like maybe the boot order is incorrect too. Usually when you get a PXE error message it is trying to boot from a network and if that is set to be checked before other items such as the hard drive it may cause similar errors. To check this you have to go into the BIOS and it is under the network card settings. Check your boot order to make sure the hard drive is before the network boot. I usually set boot orders to be like this
CD/DVD-ROM
Floppy
Hard Drive
USB Device
Network
or something similar.