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    error loading operating system message

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by aznsupafro, Nov 8, 2007.

  1. aznsupafro

    aznsupafro Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi,
    I have a t61.. i havent clean installed it, but i've pretty much deleted most of the thinkvantage stuff.. and disabled the hybrid hard disk manager thing (that was causing hangs)...
    but now every second time that restart or start my computer, a message comes up at says "error loading operating system..."

    when i say every second time, i mean that i can just restart if after i see the message and my computer loads up fine......

    anyone know what the problem is?
    thanks
     
    aznsupafro, Nov 8, 2007
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    aznsupafro Notebook Enthusiast

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    anyone got any input?
     
    aznsupafro, Nov 9, 2007
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  3. MarkoD

    MarkoD Notebook Guru

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    Make sure you don't have any cd/dvd in the drive (just to be sure). This is an issue of an incorrectly set HD translation mode - e.g. bit-shift or LBA...but the T61 doesn't allow to modify this in the BIOS, so you might as well try google...
     
    MarkoD, Nov 9, 2007
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  4. philfna

    philfna Notebook Evangelist NBR Reviewer

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    How about popping in the Vista dis, and seeing if it can repair the MBR if it is Vista. I had a similar problem on a DELL, and I had Vista do a repair and it worked fine. However, I would BACKUP first since this is a risky procedure.

    Again, backup before trying, but worth a shot, or as MarkoD said "google" is a good option.

    Phil
     
    philfna, Nov 9, 2007
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