Okay...here's the scoop. I bought a generic computer, took the hard drive from the old, turned it to a slave and added it to the new computer. Then I loaded Win XP Pro on the new drive (which is the master while the old is the slave).
Everything worked like a charm for two months. The idgits for whom I did all this work downloaded from Kaazaaaah...after two months she had over 700 little viruses and spyware issues. But the ultimate issue was the computer quit recognizing the DVD drive, the CDRW and the floppy drive.
I cleaned the viruses with AGP and Ewido...got her clean as a whistle. The computer worked, much faster; but still did not show the floppy, CD or DVD drives. Everything else worked fine.
We reset the bios, flashed the bios and then re-formated the new hard-drive; now when I turn her on, she says, "IDE Channel 0 no 80 conductor cable installed" and then eventually gets to where she says, "NTLDR is missing."
By the way, all the components, motherboard, HDD, CD, DVD and floppies have been individually loaded to another computer and worked, but when all are together, nothing works. I've even tried a completely new set of cables.
I'm at the end of my ideas...anyone out there who has a big white horse with solutions?
Salsarow.
Once the stew is ruined, anything you add to save it will only make it worse.
Everything worked like a charm for two months. The idgits for whom I did all this work downloaded from Kaazaaaah...after two months she had over 700 little viruses and spyware issues. But the ultimate issue was the computer quit recognizing the DVD drive, the CDRW and the floppy drive.
I cleaned the viruses with AGP and Ewido...got her clean as a whistle. The computer worked, much faster; but still did not show the floppy, CD or DVD drives. Everything else worked fine.
We reset the bios, flashed the bios and then re-formated the new hard-drive; now when I turn her on, she says, "IDE Channel 0 no 80 conductor cable installed" and then eventually gets to where she says, "NTLDR is missing."
By the way, all the components, motherboard, HDD, CD, DVD and floppies have been individually loaded to another computer and worked, but when all are together, nothing works. I've even tried a completely new set of cables.
I'm at the end of my ideas...anyone out there who has a big white horse with solutions?
Salsarow.
Once the stew is ruined, anything you add to save it will only make it worse.
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