Troubleshooting "No OS Found" Error
Question
A technician has just finished installing a secondary OS on a workstation.
After rebooting the computer, the technician receives the following error: No OS found.
The technician confirms the boot.ini file is correct.
Which of the following is MOST likely causing this error?
Answers
Explanations
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A. B. C. D.C.
Based on the provided information, it seems that the technician has installed a secondary operating system on a workstation but is unable to boot to any operating system. The error message suggests that the computer cannot find any operating system to boot.
Given this scenario, the most likely cause of this error is that an incompatible partition is marked as active. An active partition is a partition on a hard disk that the computer boots from. If an incompatible partition is marked as active, the computer will not be able to find the operating system and will display the "No OS found" error message.
The boot.ini file is responsible for configuring the boot process and is not likely the cause of the issue, so option C is the most likely answer. GRUB Legacy is a boot loader that is typically used in Linux systems and would not be present in a Windows-based system, so option A is incorrect. Windows Startup services may cause boot issues, but in this scenario, it is not the most likely cause of the problem, so option B is incorrect. Option D, an unsupported version of Windows, is also unlikely since the technician confirms that the boot.ini file is correct.
To resolve the issue, the technician should check the partition table and ensure that the correct partition is marked as active. They may also need to repair the boot loader or reinstall the operating system if the partition table cannot be fixed.