Hello All, I am getting this message "operating system not found" when booting up my notebook (P2-266). Sometimes when I boot from the win98se CD, I can get access to the c: drive, but it is dicey. My questions are... 1/ What can I do? I have tried a scandisk and no bad sectors were found. I have all the data that I need from the hard disk, but don't know how to fix/clean it so that I no longer have this problem. 2/ Can I just reformat to clean things and then do a reinstall of win or linux? 3/ How do I find out if I do indeed have a corrupt hard drive? thanks very much, hj.