OK here is my problem i have just got 3 old laptops and every one of them is saying no operating system found How do i solve this? All the laptops have the microsoft product key but i do not have a windows recovery disk. The laptops are fujitsu siemens lifebook c series running on xp pro , i have tried to download a recovery cd but it comes in 6 parts example disk1 disk2 disk3 disk4 etc How do i burn this to a cd? is it one per cd? or burn all of them to one cd Here is a picture of what it is saying I have lots of different harddrives so i have tried swopping them around etc and still nothing is happening. Does anyone know how to fix this? it cant be a harddrive error not on all 3 of them can it? Does anyone have a disk opr something to fix this? or do you know where i can get one? microsoft want £45 for support lol its not worth it the laptops are only worth about £5 each not even that i started this as a hobby and now i cant do it it is really annoying me If you need anymore info or pictures let me know and i will edit this post Thanks
This problem occurs if -The BIOS does not detect your hard disk. -Or The hard disk is damaged. -Sector 0 of the physical hard drive has an incorrect or malformed master boot record (MBR). -Some third-party programs or disk corruption can damage an MBR. - An incompatible partition is marked as Active. This is a Bios problem and should be thoroughly checked and corrected. Try Windows 98 boot startup disk and go to c prompt and check if Windows files are missing, get those files from internet, or try recovery disk