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[shabba]

Big poblem, yesterday I recieved a computer to fix from a friend, all it needed was to ativate XP, but it was so much easier just to over write it... So i thought, this morning I took it apart and it was all working fine. Well the same problem but xp loaded, now I cant even get it to load past the DISK BOOT ERROR after the emmory check and the dmi loading...

Heres the low down on it.

CD-ROM - Master
HardDrive - Master

I no it should be cd-rom slave, but I wanted both to be able to boot up. Now I unplugged the cd-rom to see if that was the problem but no it still cant get past the disk boot error. I did have a play around with the bios which might have caused the problem. But I reset it to defult afterwards so it should all be fine... shiouldnt it?


I really need the help so please gimmie all the help you can.

[Mr. Hobo]

Same thing happened to me, the harddrive wasn't being reconized because the wire (forgot proper name ) connecting it was damaged. I just replaced the wire and it worked.

Try inserting disc and say you want to install and it should say you don't have a harddrive. If it says you have one then I'm clueless

Edit: Wire = Ata Interface Cable

Edited by Mr. Hobo, 25 July 2006 - 12:30 PM.