Big Problem!!

b3atofang3l

b3atofang3l

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hey, my dad has a SZ420 Sony Vaio Laptop

Yesterday, he turned his laptop on and all it showed was "Missing Operating System".

Is there a way he can fix them? He doesn't care about the Operating System but he does care about his files. He called a file recovery group and they said it would cost him 700 dollars just for like 1GB of important files.

Please help=D

thanks

EDIT: he uses vista
 
Why do I receive a Missing Operating System error after I reboot my machine?

A. Unless your computer has suffered a major disk malfunction, this error message usually means that the hard disk's active partition has changed. To resolve this error, perform the following steps:

1. Boot your machine using a Windows Me, Windows 9x, or DOS 3.5" system disk that contains the Fdisk utility.
2. Start the Fdisk utility.
3. Press the Enter key to enable large disk support.
4. Select Option 2 for "Set active partition."
5. Enter the number of the partition that you want to set as the active partition, and press Enter.
6. Press the Esc key to exit.
7. Remove the boot disk from the floppy drive and reboot the machine.
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This is what the website said.

I have a HP Pavillion dv2000 laptop that I got about a month ago. I'm also running Vista, and twice so far I've turned the computer on and it has shown the HP logo (i suppose that is the actual computer turning on, before booting up) and then in the top left hand corner there is a dash that flashes and then a few seconds later the message "Operating System not Found" will flash on and off. Both times that this has happened, I just pressed the power button to turn the computer off and left it for a while. I turned it on a couple of hours later and it worked fine.

Needless to say, I'm a little worried. I read the article in the link (that I quoted above), but a) I don't really understand th problem, and b) I don't think I'd do what it suggests without some assistance, or at least a better understanding of the problem. The laptop runs Vista, like I said, and has a AMD Turion 64 X2 processor and 1 gig of RAM.

Any help in explaining the problem would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
-Geoff
 
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