Boot problems

RaynorRaynor
edited March 2008 in Hardware
I have a gateway tablet computer running Vista.

I got an error saying that Startup Repair was unable to fix it. The root cause listed is No OS files detected.

I tried using WinRE and rebuilt the MBR and Boot files, no help.

I tried to rebuild the BCD only to have it tell me there are zero installations of Vista.

There are no system restores (unfortunately)

The specific error:

Root cause found:
No OS files found on disk.

Repair action: Partition table repair
Result: Failed. Error code = 0x490
Time taken = 921ms

Any Ideas?

Comments

  • Mikail-CritchkiMikail-Critchki Here
    edited March 2008
    Reinstall the os?
  • Gate28Gate28 Orlando, Florida Icrontian
    edited March 2008
    hit up CMOS and see if its actually being told to boot from location X?

    Maybe reseting your BIOS would work...
  • RaynorRaynor
    edited March 2008
    Because it is trying to do partition table repairs, that was the step I was going to take.

    However I only have a desktop available.

    I don't expect a problem but I wanted to ask anyway, installing a SATA laptop drive into a desktop, just hook it up with sata (and power?) and go, right? Should come on as a second hd and then I can diagnose it.
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