Missing operating system

[nawras]

Hi

Help! please

I've got a laptop  packard bell igo 6204.
I needed to do a recovery, so as usual i used my recovery diskette and when it asked for the master cd 1 I insert it in but then it said " Invalid media type reading drive C /Abort, Retry or Fail".

I've tried again with a recovery cd but it does the same.

When I switch it on without any CD or Diskette in it, it comes with a black screen and "missing operating system" written.

Would you please help me  

[patio]

"invalid media reading drive C" means it cannot see the hard drive....has it become loose ? ?

[nawras]

No it hasn't, the recovery was not able to finish

[ale52]

Boot into the BIOS (you should see something come up when the computer boots, like..."Hit Del to enter BIOS"... or one of the "F" keys, or a key combination.  Look there to see if the hard drive is seen there.

Alan <><  

PS - you'll have to use your arrow keys as you will have no mouse.

[nawras]

Thank you for your reply,yes the hard drive is there.    

[ale52]

Sounds like you might have a physically defective hard drive and it will need to be replaced.

Alan <><  

[Raptor]

Before determining that, download diagnostic software from the manufacturers website.. Make certain the laptop is trying to boot from the HDD and not any other device (Such as a FDD)