You just got off work and decide to relax with some video games when suddenly your PC won't boot. When you turn it on you get an error "No OS found on bootable disks". Which of the following options is the MOST likely to solve this issue?
Reboot it and see if it goes away
Run diskpart to grant additional space to the boot partition
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As this isn't a new PC and this issue is not expected the OS is likely available but isn't being found because of a corrupted Master Boot Record (MBR) or Globally Unique ID Partition Table (GPT). Both MBR and GPT store information on how a disk is partitioned which is required for the BIOS to identify where the operating system is stored.
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A master boot record (MBR) is a special type of boot sector at the very beginning of partitioned computer mass storage devices like fixed disks or removable drives intended for use with IBM PC-compatible systems and beyond. The concept of MBRs was publicly introduced in 1983 with PC DOS 2.0.
The MBR holds the information on how the disc's sectors (aka “blocks”) are divided into partitions, each partition notionally containing a file system. The MBR also contains executable code to function as a loader for the installed operating system—usually by passing control over to the loader's second stage, or in conjunction with each partition's volume boot record (VBR). This MBR code is usually referred to as a boot loader.
The organization of the partition table in the MBR limits the maximum addressable storage space of a partitioned disk to 2 TiB (232 × 512 bytes). Approaches to slightly raise this limit utilizing 32-bit arithmetic or 4096-byte sectors are not officially supported, as they fatally break compatibility with existing boot loaders, most MBR-compliant operating systems and associated system tools, and may cause serious data corruption when used outside of narrowly controlled system environments. Therefore, the MBR-based partitioning scheme is in the process of being superseded by the GUID Partition Table (GPT) scheme in new computers. A GPT can coexist with an MBR in order to provide some limited form of backward compatibility for older systems.
MBRs are not present on non-partitioned media such as floppies, superfloppies or other storage devices configured to behave as such, nor are they
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