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Old June 30th 03, 09:53 PM
Andy Foster
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"Steve" wrote in message
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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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Old July 2nd 03, 06:24 AM
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"Andy Foster" wrote in message
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"Steve" wrote in message
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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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Old July 4th 03, 01:31 AM
Prof
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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
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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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