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SimpleMan
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Posted 11:41 pm, 03/02/2008
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Drive 0 is usually the hard drive,does the floppy drive spin up and the light come on ?, you have to get the bios set to boot from the floppy before it's gonna read the disk or it will skip it and go to the drive that is set for the first boot drive,if u have it set in the bios to boot from the floppy ,u could possibly have a bad drive,also where did u connect the data cable on the motherboard?,make sure it's connected properly pin 1 on cable to pin 1 on M/B.,also what other drives do u have?,I have experienced some conflicts w/adding extra drives in Dell PC's.
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malystrx
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Posted 1:11 pm, 03/02/2008
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ok i have a windows xp disk but it is saying that the cd is a newer version of xp than is on the pc, it also says that if i want to uninstall windows and reinstall the newer version i have to restart the pc and boot from the new disk but i have been trying to do that and i must be doing something wrong..can someone tell me how to boot from the new disk so i can get rid of the older xp version...thank you
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pnthrfn1
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Posted 10:28 pm, 02/24/2008
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You can find a copy of XP on some of these file-sharing sites. Look for a .iso file. You can burn this to a CD. You're PC should boot off of this CD. Use your XP key that is on a sticker on the PC. As long as you use the key off of the PC or copy of XP that you have purchased, then you are totally legal because you have purchased a license.
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pnthrfn1
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Posted 10:16 pm, 02/24/2008
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That won't work because the install/setup process would not have taken place. The OS will not know anything about your hardware and it will not boot.
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malystrx
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Posted 1:02 pm, 02/24/2008
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isnt it possible to copy the entire windows folder from another pc and then copy that info to the one im working on wouldnt that fix it or would i still need to use a windows xp disk.
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pk
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Posted 12:06 pm, 02/19/2008
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It is most likely looking for the protected restore partition, hard mapped as an O: drive. If the drive has ever been completely formatted/repartitioned, then the restore partition is probably gone. Find an XP disk, and reinstall a vanilla using the key from the side of the case. If it's a dell, it probably wont even ask for activation.
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pnthrfn1
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Posted 11:10 pm, 02/18/2008
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Go to bootdisk.com and create a windows98 bootdisk, then set the Floppy to the first boot device in the bios, and see if it will boot off of the windows98 bootdisk. Tell us what happens.
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baf71
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Posted 4:41 pm, 02/18/2008
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a floppy drive is allways A that might be your problem
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malystrx
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Posted 1:19 pm, 02/17/2008
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ok im working on a dell dimension 2350 desktop pc. it never had a floppy drive in it..i put one in it so i could restore the pc to factory specs..i turned the drive on through the pc's BIOS portion but now it says no protected dtructure found one drive O. it does this when i load my restore floppy in it and turn it on. does any one know how to get around this so my floppy will reboot the harddrive so every thing is cleaned out of it.
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