My Compaq Presario 700 CM2130 failed to boot one day out of the blue. It just gave me an error message saying Operating System Not Found. I put in the disk for Windows XP and after a few minutes of loading files, I now get an error message saying there was no hard disk drives found; make sure the drives are properly installed. I researched this error message and found a suggestion pointing to RAID/SATA configuation in BIOS. Now, when I look into BIOS, it seems I only have about 60 seconds and the computer powers down. I don't know enough about what I am doing or if this is even where the problem is, so I thought I would ask around. Any ideas?

pettit8 Oct 18, 2009

To be honest, I never really got that far. I know it had anti virus software on it, but I don't think it was up to date. I bought the laptop used off Craig's list a few months ago. It didn't have Word on it, so I couldn't use it for the main reason I bought it, completing assignments for school (they only accept Word). I only booted it up maybe 6 times since I bought it. I went online with it, but nothing much. I brought it with me on vacation to use in the hotel and that was when I saw the first "No Operating System Found" message. I put it away and just recently started playing with it to see what needed to be done. I am hoping it won't be too bad and it will still be worth it to fix this laptop.
Anonymous May 11, 2010

Have you been running anti virus software? If so, which one?

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When you get to the BIOS window, do you get a message saying that is going to shut down in some period of time of does it just shut down?

Here is my best guess and solution. I believe you've got a worm virus. If you have nothing that you want on this hard drive, and you've got a full install Windows XP disk, I'd do a full install with a complete format, not a quick format, FAT32, if you can, NTFS, if you can't and reinstall Windows XP.

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