On Sat, 17 May 2008 07:27:00 -0700, Deanna <Deanna@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

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>Thank you all for your help !!!
>
> I tried a couple of the suggestions (except unplugging cables which i'll
>try tonight) and I am actually not that literate when it comes to checking
>BIos and all that, in fact i didn't know what the heck you were saying lol
>..however...
>
>I did the DEL thing when it starts up and got into the Bios thingy. I have
>two choices BIOS and CMOS. I went into both of them and eventually found the
>place where you change which drive it boots from first. It is booting from
>my cd drive first. I put in the Windows XP Recovery Disk and it says "Not a
>system disk". Do I have the right one? It says right on it "to restore your
>operating system". I'm thinking my cd drive or the actual disk is a problem
>now. My floppy(A) is totally uslesss so i can't use it for any reason. I
>also went in and changed it to boot up from HDD 0, HDD1, HDD2 and HDD3.
>Nothing worked. I went in to one of the options where it says" check hard
>drive" and did that. It said it was checking then nothing happened after.
>
>I didn't see anything about SATA and I explored for a while. I'm afraid to
>change anything else as i am not exactly a programmer ! Although anything
>would be better than what i have now, which is NO windows.
>

Be careful - do not change but have a look at ADVANCED/DRIVE CONFIG. Click on
that and you should see SATA configuration and see if it is set or as in my case
greyed.

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