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PLEASE help with this
I turn on my PC this morning and i get this message:
"Non-system disk or disk error
Replace and strike any key when ready"
That the hell does this mean, please let it not be what i think it is. Also how do i fix it?
Please tell me all my documents are still there.
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Posted: 2006-01-06 09:55:56
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Hi everyone, I've just got back from the airport, will reply to your PMs later on today as I'm off to bed now!
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Posted: 2006-01-06 14:24:58
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@p900 lover
Just checking (I’m sure you haven’t) but you haven’t left a disc in the a: drive?
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Posted: 2006-01-06 14:27:26
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On 2006-01-06 14:27:26, joebmc wrote:
@p900 lover
Just checking (I’m sure you haven’t) but you haven’t left a disc in the a: drive?
Im well confused about this, but all is good as you can see im online.
Let me explain i got 2 collage and looked on the net and it said there may be a device left in 1 of the drives, eg floppy but i was thinking and the last time i used a floppy was well over a 2 years ego but i then rememberd i was taking pics last nite and left my memory stick duo in the slot. So i got home, took the memory stick duo out and still the same, so i then tried all my drives and yes there was a floppy disk, the funny think is that it belonged to my mums friend who visited like 6 month ego and im sure i have turned my PC of since then so why does the problem only arise now?
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Posted: 2006-01-06 16:26:29
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Hi there, I think I have worked out more about the fault in my sony laptop, basically I ran a ram check on it and it failed miserbly looks like all the ram is corrupt, so I thought id remove it, only to find that the ram is built into the motherboard non removable. I thought ok maybe if I stuck a new chip of ram in it would make it work, it does help (doesnt crash as much) but doesnt do the job as I still think its trying to write to the corrupt chips. Is there anyway you know of to remove inbuilt ram, or fix curropted ram? if you do it would be a great help, Cheers Luke
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Posted: 2006-01-07 14:03:21
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hey. i have a problem i cannot solve. i have taken out the floppy disk drives out my 2 pcs now when plugged back in they dont work. i have tried different conbinations with the ide cables but can only get it to light up green. i read that that means the cables in the wrong way. have i just got the cables mixed up or is it more than that (same happens on both pcs)?
also my old pc only reconises my wid xp cd even though i have a working wid 95 cd and a copied 98 cd. the 98 cd used to work but not now so running xp on a 32mb ram pc which aint good. if theres no hope ill stick with it as its not actually that slow
dude_se
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Posted: 2006-01-09 22:49:04
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@ cyco u know much bout adwords and best methods for using it etc
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Posted: 2006-01-09 22:50:14
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@max
No, but I know a man who does
I can ask him for some tips tomorrow if you like, he's the webmaster of a very successful online shop and he's used adwords quite a lot in the past.
@dude
Floppy light always on is, as you say, because the ide cables are in the wrong way round. They need to be in correctly both in the mother board and the drive. In the drive, the red edge of the cable should point to the left hand side side of the drive (looking at the drive from the back where the connectors are).
The reason that you can no longer install 95 or 98 is probably because your hard drive was formatted to NTFS when you put XP on. 95 and 98 boot disks can't recognise the NTFS partition, you need to use fdisk to delete the partiton (fsidk sees it as a 'non-dos partition') and then use fdisk again to create a logical dos (fat16 or 32) partition. Restart the PC, format the new partition and you will be able to install 95 or 98 again.
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[ This Message was edited by: Cycovision on 2006-01-09 22:27 ]
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Posted: 2006-01-09 23:18:19
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Cheers cyco
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Posted: 2006-01-09 23:40:04
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@cyco. i will try the floppy thing tonight. also it is a fat32 partition and i formatted the pc first of all with fdisk using a 98 floppy boot disk. then the floppy stopped working so i cannot get that back but even then the 98 or 95 cd would not work
dude_se
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Posted: 2006-01-10 17:40:28
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