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Removing a hard drive/adding a cd writer
"Steve" wrote in message
om... I just inherited a faster more powerful computer. I took out one of the hard drives and added my cd writer. Windows will now not start. It started before the cd writer(without the hard drive). I have not yet gone into the bios, that just makes me nervous. Please help! Have you set the CD writer as master/slave ? |
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"Andy Foster" wrote in message ... "Steve" wrote in message om... I just inherited a faster more powerful computer. I took out one of the hard drives and added my cd writer. Windows will now not start. It started before the cd writer(without the hard drive). I have not yet gone into the bios, that just makes me nervous. Please help! Have you set the CD writer as master/slave ? The other question would be *which* HDD was removed ? |
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The bios can always be restored to its original settings and changes can
always be undone so the bios is a safe place unless you try to flash it then there can be disasters, but for routine changes there is little to no danger. Did you configure the master slave jumpers correctly? And also you must go into the bios in order to settup the master slave recognition of the hdd and the cd drive or one or neither may be recognized. So you must go into the bios and have it autodetect the two drives and save the changes. But as I said there is not much to fear about changing the bios because you can always try whatever you want there and if it doesn't work change it back again. Sometimes it is necessary to change the boot sequence. "Steve" wrote in message om... I just inherited a faster more powerful computer. I took out one of the hard drives and added my cd writer. Windows will now not start. It started before the cd writer(without the hard drive). I have not yet gone into the bios, that just makes me nervous. Please help! |
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