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« Reply #15 on: Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 20:02:27 » |
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I had a hard drive yesterday.
Plymouth and back in a day.
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« Reply #16 on: Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 20:02:45 » |
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« Reply #17 on: Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 20:15:14 » |
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weak.
Tell me about it. I had to sit through an eight hour meeting as well. Uber knackered. |
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« Reply #18 on: Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 20:17:03 » |
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Should I burn just the ISO file to CD, or open it out with ISO buster?
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« Reply #19 on: Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 20:19:17 » |
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I'm going to use ISO buster
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« Reply #20 on: Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 20:22:17 » |
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I'm going to use ISO buster
Do you find yourself talking to yourself often? |
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« Reply #21 on: Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 20:29:49 » |
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Only when I'm stupid enough to ask dumb questions.
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« Reply #22 on: Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 21:25:33 » |
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Argg. With either of the CD's (modded XP, OEM XP) it gives me the....
Diskette drive 0 seek failure
Primary drive 0 not found
Strike F1 to continue F2 to run setup utility
....message. In the BIOS its like this:
Drive Config - Diskette drive A: 3.5inch, 1.44mb
- Primary master drive - unknown device
- Primary slave drive - OFF
- Secondary master drive - CD ROM device
- Secondary slave drive - OFF
- IDE Drive UDMA - On
HArd Disk Drive Sequence - 1. System BIOS boot devices
- 2. USB Device (not installed)
Boot Sequence - 1. IDE CD-ROM device
- 2. Hard disk drive (not installed)
There's an OS install mode on/off bit, but neither makes a difference. It says something about limiting memory to 256mb.
Would involving an external HDD be useful at all? If its having a problem with CDs?
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« Reply #23 on: Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 21:27:37 » |
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I've tested both of the CDs in this laptop and they both work.
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« Reply #24 on: Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 22:06:57 » |
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« Reply #25 on: Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 14:14:57 » |
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Sorry OF I forgot about this. Have you tried pressing the F1 key to continue?
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« Reply #26 on: Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 15:21:55 » |
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No worries have only just got in, and thanks for all your help so far. Have you tried pressing the F1 key to continue?
Yeah, It repeats the message. |
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« Reply #27 on: Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 16:03:08 » |
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How odd. You definitely selected master and not Cable Select on the jumper didn't you.
I assume the Hdd is powered on OK and spinning up, and that it's connected OK on the IDE cable/cable to MOBO.
Q for Si Pie - I'd have though BIOS would have detected some sort of signature from the Hdd, but its displaying 'unknown'. Is that correct or not?
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Other than that, I assume the BIOS is set to auto detect the Hdd and not set manually for the number of cylinders/heads/etc.
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Not sure why the thing won't boot from CD ROM straight off mind given they work in the laptop. Maybe the Dell doesn't like them for some reason.
I assume they are CD-r or CD+r , have been finalised and are not CD-rw/+rw's?
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« Reply #28 on: Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 16:27:38 » |
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Just unscrewed it and the jumper is definitely on the 2 pins on the M for Master row.
I can hear the HDD spin, so its definitely powered up. The cable to HDD/mobo is connected fine at both ends.
I turned the diskette thing off because it doesn't have a floppy. Have tried primary drive on AUTO and disabled.
The CDs are CDR's, finalised with Nero.
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« Reply #29 on: Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 16:57:20 » |
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It should be recognising the drive but what I would try first is to swap over the connection from the hard drive to the cd rom and vice versa. By my recogning that would make the cd rom primary 0 and maybe progress the thing along.
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