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September 17th, 2014 02:00
OPERATING SYSTEM NOT FOUND
Good day to all, I have some problem with my Dell Inspiron mini 1012. Don't know what to do anymore with this " Operating System not found" error on display screen when I boot up my netbook. I tried all these steps ( Reseat HDD, Load defaults at BIOS, try another working HDD to my netbook, and I tried also inserting my HDD to another laptop but it worked. Only my netbook have some problem.
shannoboy
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September 18th, 2014 17:00
thanks for your quick response, but I'm no sure of clearing CMOS. Can't see any jumpers, but I'm done replacing the battery with new one. What's the JUMPER looks like for this one? (DELL INSPIRON MINI 1012)
speedstep
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September 18th, 2014 18:00
There is no jumper. The drive is physically bad. There are no soft fixes for dead hard drive.
shannoboy
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September 18th, 2014 18:00
no the Drive wasn't bad, it worked in the other laptop too.. I tried also inserting working drive but ddn't detected.
theflash1932
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September 19th, 2014 13:00
Your system doesn't have jumpers for the CMOS/NVRAM - removing the battery is how it needs to be done. Clearing the CMOS simply erases the BIOS configuration/list for the hardware, forcing it to rebuild the list when it boots up. If that list has become corrupt, causing a device not to be recognized or work properly, clearing it can help. It was never intended to "fix" the hard drive. If no known-good drives work in your system, you need to replace your system (or motherboard). If the drive doesn't work in another system either, then your drive needs to be replaced.
shannoboy
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September 26th, 2014 11:00
Seems like I'm out of Hope to repair this. Had tried all and I'ts useless. Now I need to dispose this laptop and buy a new one, but not DELL.
theflash1932
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September 26th, 2014 11:00
This can happen on any brand of computer.
shannoboy
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September 27th, 2014 21:00
By the way thanks for your effort..
VinOth_VingO
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October 3rd, 2014 00:00
Hi,
Vibration, over time, can cause a bad connection. So just re-seating it, as you just did, often solves the problem
shannoboy1
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October 3rd, 2014 00:00
Done with diagnostics,. Hard drive not found
Admiral Smith
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October 6th, 2014 07:00
Try an external boot manager to access your partition.
jashonsmith
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November 22nd, 2015 22:00
Hello SHANNOBOY, you can apply some tricks given below. hope it will work
Method 1 – Verify the boot order in BIOS or UEFI settings
Method 2 – Fix the Master Boot Record (MBR)
Method 3 – Reinstall Windows
For complete solution you can visit:
http://www.pcerror-fix.com/solved-operating-system-not-found-error-for-windows-10
galem2695
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November 23rd, 2015 17:00
Although I had originally thought to flag this as spam in the end I decided not to, since I believes in what he/she is recommend.
Having read through the linked site it is bunch of nonsense. "Sometimes the hard drive may full +...+ hard drive and cramming of data on the drive may lead to crashing" You can not put any more data on a hard drive than what it is designed to hold.
Fragmentation is generally not an issue, fragmentation means different thing depending on what operating system you are using. Fragmentation on Window is not the same as fragmentation on UNIX/Linux. Note Apple OSX is UNIX based. You should never defragment a solid-state for at least two reasons. SSDs have a read/write cycle limit and wasting them on defragmenting will lead to early death and because of SS disks design placement of data is a non-issue, all data is accessed randomly..