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    Need to repair MBR without disc! In the Air Force, on leave with no disc...

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by CStradling24, Jan 2, 2011.

  1. CStradling24

    CStradling24 Newbie

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    My M17x just shutdown by itself and upon reboot says "no operating system found.". I do not have the disc with me because I am on leave right now for the holidays. I do not have a recovery partition as well. Is there a fix MBr program available from Alienware that I dont know about or ideas? Any help would be appreciated! Thank you
     
    CStradling24, Jan 2, 2011
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  2. faiz23

    faiz23 Macbook FTW

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    lolz...AIR FORCE ONES...FTW

    Can you download a live boot cd or a linux distribution to repair the partition.

    ummm...


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    alienwolf Notebook Deity

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  4. jcaulley

    jcaulley Notebook Consultant

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    Quick question before you go trying to reinstall and lose a lot of stuff, are you running 2 drives in RAID 0? If you are, first thing you should do is go into the BIOS and make sure that the RAID is enabled and not set to SATA. I have had 2 instances where the BIOS just forgot that RAID was supposed to be enabled and reset to disabled. Make sure it is turned on and RAID 0 is set to active. I'll recheck the BIOS settings in a few minutes and post more clear instructions once I have a cahnce to reboot and look at them.

    Edit: These are the BIOS settings to check

    Advanced Tab
    - SATA Operation [RAID]
    - RAID OPROM UI [ENABLED]
    - RAID Mode Selection
    - RAID 0 [ENABLED]


    If they have been disabled, I am pretty sure the, No operating System found message is what I got when it happened to me. You shouldn't have to rebuild the array, just turn on the BIOS settings and it should boot up.
     
    jcaulley, Jan 3, 2011
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