Thanks for the reply Rick.
Sorry about the bad post I had trouble with the phishing filter. I had to
disable it and the reply was lost. I am trying again.
I am sorry that the post was not more complete but I don’t do this very often.
The machine would post up and the Mobo (Asus p4b 533-v) screen would display
after this I would get the message that said “The operating is missing please
insert a system disk” I did a lot of looking around and somewhere I got the
message that the partition table was missing. I used the diagnostic utilities
on the vista boot up disk when you press repair my computer.
The hard drive is a Maxor Ultra 16 250 GB 7200 rpm. I have it setting on the
shelf now because I don’t trust it. I am using a different hard drive and xp
pro.
Tia reppep
hope it takes this time
"reppep" wrote:
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> "Rick Rogers" wrote:
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> > Hi reppep,
> >
> > Probably hardware. What makes you think it was the partition table? Were
> > that it, then the system would get past the POST and fail when it attempts
> > to load from the mbr. Have you run a drive diagnostic to see if it was a
> > mechanical failure?
> >
> > --
> > Best of Luck,
> >
> > Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> > http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> > Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> >
> > "reppep" <reppep@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:7ADAF716-A308-46B0-BCA9-5DC05E8905D3@microsoft.com...
> > > Would anyone tell me the most likely cause of a lost partition table? My
> > > OS
> > > was Vista RC-1 which had been running very well for some time. I did get a
> > > blue before the failure but it did not stay up long enough to read
> > > anything
> > > before the screen went black. The computer will not reboot would this be
> > > hardware or software problem.
> > >
> > > tia
> > > reppep
> >
> >
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