It could be a few different things. Remove any cd's or thumb drives. Try to boot. If not, go into bios and make sure the boot order is set to the hard drive first. Then try to boot. If still nothing try and reseat your hard drive by removing it and putting it back. If those don't work you might just have a bad hard drive...
Please try the following:
1. Remove the non-system disk from your boot device. For example, remove the non-system disk from the CD-ROM drive. If there is no CD or remove the floppy disk from the floppy drive.
2. Change your computer's boot sequence. To do this, you must change your computer's setup and the option that controls which device your computer uses to start from. Make sure that you select a device that has boot files (or operating system files) installed. Normally, this would be your hard drive.
SOURCE: compaq desktop persario xp non-system disk or disk error
This means that the system identifies the hard drive on your computer as one that is not bootable, in other words, it does not contain any operating system, or it does contain one, but the disk format is not recognized by the system. For example, Windows operating systems only identify two types of disks and that is DYNAMIC or BASIC. If a Hard disk has an operating system and has been converted to DYNAMIC, you can not start any operating system on it. Only BASIC disks can be used to start an operating system. Here is a solution for you... Get a copy of the operating system you are using and boot the computer from it. Press F2 when booting and go to the system BIOS where you are going to configure the boot order or the boot sequence and make the CD drive the first booting device, so that the system can boot from the CD. If you receive a message stating that the SETUP can not find any hard disk installed.... then there must be a problem with the Hard disk format. Remove the hard disk and connect it to a desktop computer as a slave. This will enable you to see the Hard disk as a removable device on the 'My computer" menu.Go to start, right-click on "My computer" and select "Manage". This will take you into computer management console, then select "Disk management" and this will bring all the disks and drives connected to that computer and all their respective information. Click of the drive that you just connected and check on the bottom middle column, the type of the disk whether it is DYNAMIC or BASIC. If it is Dynamic, then you have to covert it back to basic. Make sure you make a data backup before you do this. This is because the system will delete anything on the hard drive. When you are done, take the hard drive back to your computer and boot from the CD again and install a new operating system. You should be good after this...
SOURCE: When you turn on the
Your computer can not find the system to boot from.
Which suggests that your BIOS has lost where to look for the system.
Check your BIOS for the correct Drive settings ie A if floppy Drive C if hard disk or "x" if CD
where "x" is equal to CD's Drive Identification.
Then try rebooting.
If that still does not work
then SET BIOS to Boot From floppy Drive A: and ensure you have a bootable Floppy Drive in drive A: and try rebooting again.
If that works it would appear that you have lost you your operating system from your hard drive which will require you to reload the operating system to your hard disk. (Remember to set Bios to Boot from Drive "x" where your bootable source is to reload the operating system)
SOURCE: black screen error
Hi there.
Go into the Bios and set the boot order to HDD (hard drive) as first boot device, save the changes and exit the bios, the computer will restart and try to boot from the HDD.
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