I suggest that you change the 'Boot Priority' of the hard drive in the 'BIOS' settings. The following steps will help you to do the necessary changes.
Restart the system; keep tapping 'F2' key as soon as you see the 'Dell Splash' screen. This will take you to the 'BIOS' settings. Select 'Boot' and multiple hard drive names should to be shown under hard drive section if there are 2 hard drives on the system. Select the drive which has the Operating system installed on it and change the boot priority of that drive to '1'. Restart the system and check if that works.
Thanks for the suggestions. I'm embarrased to admit what the problem is - but I'll share it anyway :-) In the bios, when setting the boot order, I had assumed that "Hard Disk" was my original had drive and secondary drive was the SSD. I hadn't explanded the text to check this. Assuming can be dangerous.... of course when I went back to this again, I did expand the text and realised I was trying to boot into the blank SSD- hence the problem! Now I have been able to resolve this and make a clean Win 7 install on to the SSD and it's nearly all working - I have one niggling problem which I'll post in a new thread. Thanks again.
DELL-Harish R
677 Posts
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October 5th, 2012 00:00
Hi martinmt,
I suggest that you change the 'Boot Priority' of the hard drive in the 'BIOS' settings. The following steps will help you to do the necessary changes.
Restart the system; keep tapping 'F2' key as soon as you see the 'Dell Splash' screen. This will take you to the 'BIOS' settings. Select 'Boot' and multiple hard drive names should to be shown under hard drive section if there are 2 hard drives on the system. Select the drive which has the Operating system installed on it and change the boot priority of that drive to '1'. Restart the system and check if that works.
I hope this helps
Please reply in case of any queries
Thanks and regards
Harish R
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wolfstin
2 Posts
0
October 10th, 2012 13:00
Emergency Boot CD has Mount & Boot Center to show current state of OS loaders.
It is very useful to detect and fix such errors.
Fixing "Operating System not found" is explained in this article:
http://www.prime-expert.com/articles/b11/fix-operating-system-not-found.php
martinmt
7 Posts
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October 12th, 2012 03:00
Thanks for the suggestions. I'm embarrased to admit what the problem is - but I'll share it anyway :-) In the bios, when setting the boot order, I had assumed that "Hard Disk" was my original had drive and secondary drive was the SSD. I hadn't explanded the text to check this. Assuming can be dangerous.... of course when I went back to this again, I did expand the text and realised I was trying to boot into the blank SSD- hence the problem! Now I have been able to resolve this and make a clean Win 7 install on to the SSD and it's nearly all working - I have one niggling problem which I'll post in a new thread. Thanks again.