Hello can, any one help me out on what to do. My firend bought a none tested pc set and conneected it but the system displayed no operating system found can any one help
i will be grateful

It probably means that the PC came with no operating system and you need to buy one. Whether Windows 98 or 2000 or XP.

Your friend should check the system bios. Maybe, the system is set to boot from floppy or CD-rom ONLY.  If so, change the system boot process to boot from hard-drive. But again, as Skidoc said, its possible there is no OS installed.

Lastly, its quite possible the PC is lacking a hard-drive. You might want to check that out too.

Try to install Windows XP on the hard disk. Does it have a hard disk?

@zule, let ur friend test whatever he's buying next time, its always good. check the BIOS as Ynot said and if it doesnt work, install 2000 or XP, Microsoft will soon discontinue support for Win 98.

They have said it all!

you can always return it but installing an operating system is not hard as long as you have an hard disk

is the PC branded (as in HP, Acer, ) or cloned (assembled). most branded are solded with the OS pre-installed, otherwise it will be stated on the PC or its carton.it'll of cause make it cheaper. cloned, not neceaasrily, and might not be stated.

No operating system found could also happen when either your hard disk is bad or IDE cable is not connected or perharps the hard drive is not recognized by the cpu or bios

This is only and advance troubleshooting process when all other advice posted earlier dont walk.

If you dont know anything about hardware,then i might be speaking greek to you.consult your pc technicain or engineer.

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No operating system found could also happen when either your hard disk is bad or IDE cable is not connected or perharps the hard drive is not recognized by the cpu or bios

This is only and advance troubleshooting process when all other advice posted earlier don't walk.

If you don't know anything about hardware,then i might be speaking greek to you.consult your pc technicain or engineer.

All what u have siad i know them all it is just that i don't know the previuosly installed version of the operating system in his pc. i ahve checked the IDE cable myself and even reconnected it my self but to know avail i suggeted a bootable CD but the issue is which of the bootable do i use windows 98,

Kenniy
is the PC branded (as in HP, Acer, ) or cloned (assembled). most branded are solded with the OS pre-installed, otherwise it will be stated on the PC or its carton.it'll of cause make it cheaper. cloned, not neceaasrily, and might not be stated.

the system is a heavily used non-tested pentium II system
so i have decided to used abootable CD to check if can format the HARD DISK and upgrade the operating system

Seun
ry to install Windows XP on the hard disk. Does it have a hard disk?

that's my final decision yet to try it

Has this now been solved?

yup, segun
at last i found out that the HArd disk is faulty cause I wanted to upgrade the OS to window XP
when the Hard disk was formmatting it stop in 99% then i change another hard disk
but then do u have any clue on what to do to continue using the hard disk cos i love tthat disk it is a 20gb hard disk?

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do u have any clue on what to do to continue using the hard disk cos i love tthat disk it is a 20gb hard disk?

Tot it was supposed to be your friends PC how come u now like d 20Gb Hard disk, And bros is it not even betta to throw away dat 20Gb HDD , some phones even carry Hard disk larger dan that, ? my advise is dat upgrade to a higher Hard disk and move on,

nice one guys

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