“No Operating System Found”—Anatomy of a Hard Drive Boot Error When you get a “no operating system found” error message, your computer is telling you, in very plain English, what it is seeing. You booted it up, it looked for…
When you turn on your PC, you expect to see the Windows startup screen shortly afterward, followed by your familiar Windows login screen. You don’t expect to encounter a boot error instead—but when it happens, it happens. In this data…
The client in this Hitachi HDD recovery case brought their laptop to Gillware after a hard drive failure cut them off from their personal documents and family photos. They had encountered a dreadful blue screen with an “unmountable boot volume”…
If you’re a PC user, you may have encountered this hard drive boot error at least once in your life: File: \Boot\BCDStatus: 0xc000000fInfo: An error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration data. When you get this hard drive…
If you depend on your computer (as many of us do), few things in this world can make your heart skip a beat like an infinite startup repair loop. When Window’s own startup repair gets stuck, it’s easy to fear…
