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| Thread ID: 56000 | 2005-03-24 20:59:00 | a more urgent problem... | DigitalMessiah (7649) | Press F1 |
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| 337619 | 2005-03-24 21:42:00 | Did u press 3?? What happened when u selected it? Nothing at all? | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 337620 | 2005-03-24 21:42:00 | same as the normal startup only without the intro wav... i dont get anything but a scandisk | DigitalMessiah (7649) | ||
| 337621 | 2005-03-24 21:49:00 | on the dell dimension 4600 is it possible to add a slave Floppy drive? i have a slot in my cabinet for one but i dont see any free ports on the motherboard... but maybe on the ribbons | DigitalMessiah (7649) | ||
| 337622 | 2005-03-24 22:05:00 | Nope, unless the mobo has a floppy connection, I doubt u can add a floppy to an IDE connection as a slave . IDE has 40 pin, a floppy has 34 pins . Not enough pins . This sounds like a system where Dell left out the connection for the floppy altogether . . . The only way you'll get a floppy in, is to buy a USB floppy, if her system has USB on it . BUT then, ME may HAVE to detect it before u can use it . And whether there's a USB option in the BIOS as well . So, you can boot from a USB device / floppy . And by the looks of it, what u posted ME doesnt have a command prompt option after u press F8 . So, it'll be a bit hard, even if u have the CD . Since you cant use a DOS prompt . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 337623 | 2005-03-24 22:19:00 | well what if i took ONE of my cd rom drive's out and added the floppy in it's place? | DigitalMessiah (7649) | ||
| 337624 | 2005-03-24 22:24:00 | Nope. coz cd's use 40 pin the same as a hard drive. That wont work either. | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 337625 | 2005-03-24 22:26:00 | so there is no way to get the ME computer to boot from CD ? cuz i have a System Restore CD for that computer.... and use a windows xp disc to FDISK and upgrade? | DigitalMessiah (7649) | ||
| 337626 | 2005-03-24 22:32:00 | Oh so the ME pc doesnt have a CD either?? If not then u can chuck one of yours in her PC . That'll work . Just dont put the cd on the same connection as a hard drive . Umm u could install the CD / boot from the CD (change the bootdisk in BIOS to CD), and restore whatever on her PC no prob at all . Put it by itself on the secondary ide connection (If this PC has a secondary IDE connection) . BUT has your XP been installed on yours?? If so, NOT a good idea installing it on your mom's . It MAY install, BUT getting it to activate, maybe another matter . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 337627 | 2005-03-24 22:36:00 | no no my mom already has a cd rom drive.. i was just asking if it was possible to get the CD to boot first... but since you covered all that in your post ill try it as soon as i find the disc... i just misplaced it lol | DigitalMessiah (7649) | ||
| 337628 | 2005-03-24 22:45:00 | i got some bad news . . . i ran the system restore and it says there is no FAT32 on the computer while i KNOW for a FACT that it IS a fat32 . . . any ideas? EDIT: also i got into dos after running the cd . . . . i try to type C:\ and it says invalid drive specification . . and i KNOW that is what my hard drive used to be on EDIT 2: then again . . . i think the windows 98 SE was the fat32 . . . i dont rightly remember what the 10 gig is . . . . damn . . . |
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