An Operating System wasn't found.

I recently upgraded my pc to Windows 10 from Windows 7. While resetting my pc, due to power outage it shut down. Now when I start my pc it says 'An operating system wasn't found. Try disconnecting any drives that don't contain an operating system. Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart'

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I have a problem.
I have applied the wim image to a new computer by using this method.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh824910.aspx
The image was applied by using the next command.
Dism /apply-image /imagefile:N:\Images\my-windows-partition.wim /index:1 /ApplyDir:W:\
I have used the BCDboot tool to copy common system partition files.
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When everything is ready but when I try to boot computer to Windows, it says:
An operating system wasn't found. Try disconnecting and drivers that don't contain an operating system. Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to restart.
I have deployed a different kind of computers by using DISM but I have never seen this kind of notification.

I resolved the problem.
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how to install windows 7 in i mac model A 1224 where a message of an operating system wasn't found. Try disconnecting any drives that don't contain an operating system.

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Operation system wasn't found

I start up my hp pavilion g series and i have messege that say an operating system wasnt found, what i have to do to fix that ?

Hi:
Go into the BIOS and run the hard drive diagnostics test and see what it reports.
Normally error messages like that indicate that the hard drive has failed.
Paul

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Console > ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- ZTIDiskpart 12/16/2013 9:57:05 AM 0 (0x0000)
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HP Pavilion dv6500 Entertainment Notebook PC series Operating system not found

Hello to all how are you doing guys doing today I'm having a problem and need the help from the tech world. So i have a Hp Pavilion dv6500 cto notebook. I started it up and got a black screen stating "Operating System Not Found". I couldnt get into safe mode to recover back to a safe point, i was able to get into the bios system to do a memory and Hard drive test, my memory test came back as a Pass but my Hard drive came back as a fail and stated "Replace Hard Drive".
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When I turn my hp pavilion dv7 it first comes up With a black screen then it says an operating system was not found try disconnecting any drives that don't contain a operating system Press ctrl+alt+del to restart Please help Many thanks 

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I see that you are having start up problems with your HP computer. I would like to help with this issue but I need some information.
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Operating system not found

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I recently received on my notebook, operating system 8.1, the message "Adobe Acrobat is no longer working properly". I also found myself that I can copy from einerPDF file excerpts not without problems in another document. My Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro has released version 9.0.0. Two updates this version is not listed. Please inform me how I can fix this problem.
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Trying to boot up this morning gave this error message:
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Hi,
The above error message shows that the Hard disk drive is failed on your unit. You have to replace the Hard disk drive and reinstall the OS.
To order parts click the below link
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Boot Device Not Found Please Intall an Operating system on your hard disk. Hard Disk - (3F0)

Hello,
I tried to re-install de OS from windows 7 to windows 8.1 and when the bios update driever was installed and the laptop was restaring it appeared the folowing window and message:
Boot Device Not Found Please Intall an Operating system on your hard disk. Hard Disk - (3F0)
After that i tried a lot of different ways to get to boot device select ...but i couldn't do anything. I removed the HDD and i put it back, i've tried with holding in the same time windows +B and pressing the power button in the same time for 1..2 seconds and then i've waited for at least 1 minute..and it didn't appeared anything on the screen. I've done the hard drive check and it passed. The weirdest thing is that when i want to select a boot device to re-install again the OS, i can't see any boot device to select. I need to mention that i've formatted the HDD in another computer. I dont care about the informations from the HDD beacause i saved all the informations on another device storage.
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Whenever you get a message stating that the boot device not found it could be because of bad sectors on the Hard Drive. Its not necessary that the Hard Drive Test should fail to determine if the Hard Drive if its faulty or not. Sometimes even if the Hard Drive Test passes the Hard Drive will still not work because of the bad sectors in it.
Best way to find out if its the Hard Drive you can try the Hard Deive on a different Notebook which would help you determine if it's faulty or not.
Could be due to Application or driver conflicts, virus issues, file corruptions due to incompatible applications, improper shutdowns, update failures due to conflicts, sudden power surges, if notebook is dropped etc..
HP will provide a replacement Hard Disk Drive if the Notebook warranty is Active, If not you need buy a SATA Hard Disk Drive from a retail shop nearby
Please make sure you are getting at least equal capacity as the original one in order to use Recovery Disks. If you need you can buy a larger, but not smaller capacity Hard Disk Drive. For example if you have a 500GB Hard Disk Drive you can upgrade it to 750GB Hard Disk Drive but not 320GB Hard Disk Drive
Please try the below shown troubleshooting steps once:
Step 01. Remove the battery and unplug the AC/Power Adapter
Step 02. Press and hold the Power button for more than 30 Seconds
Step 03. Plug in the AC/Power Adapter (leave the Battery out for now)
Step 04. Press the Power button and check if the Unit works normal
If the above mentioned steps does not help, then you can try reseating the Hard Drive on your Notebook
If the issue persists again please Contact HP if your HP Notebook is under warranty, HP would replace the Hard Disk Drive and provide you a Recovery media to restore factory operating system after replacement (if you've not yet created Recovery Discs/USB Media)
Note: Back up all the personal data to an external drive if it's possible. Otherwise you could connect the failed HDD via SATA to USB adapter with another PC or same PC after replacement of HDD & re-installation of OS and try copying /recovering the files.
Please click on the link In order to Identify, Prevent, Diagnose & Recover from Drive Failures on HP Notebook Hard Drives & Solid State Drives :
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c02876562.pdf
Please check your notebook warranty to verify the status and order a new Hard Disk Drive
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My Duaghter is out of the country studing abroad. Her PC would no longer boot up so she took it to a support shop. They replaced her hard drive, fixed an over heating issue and reloaded her PC. Now she is getting this new error message and she is desparate to get this fixed. We have owned this PC for only 2 years. I am sure it is out of support.
HP Pavilion dv-4087CL Notebook receiving : Boot Device Not Found-Please install an operating system on your hard disk.
She took it back to the support shop and they upgraded her bios, but that did not fix the error message.
Please help! What can she do now.

Hi:
Normally that means the hard drive failed.
I know it was replaced but maybe the replacement drive went out too.
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