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Lord.Roderick.i
06-10-2008, 03:13 PM
Well, IDK what she did to her computer yesterday, but this shows when she starts it today, and I dont know what to do:
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g282/smily2012/DSCN0700.jpg
What should I do?
Nutritious
06-10-2008, 03:32 PM
Hmm, A:\

You don't have a floppy boot disk inserted by chance, do you?
Lord.Roderick.i
06-10-2008, 04:18 PM
no floppy drive installed in the machine
phill
06-10-2008, 06:19 PM
Its booting into dos somehow and using a: which is normally reserved for the floopy drive. I would pop into the bios and take a look at the boot order, change it so that the harddrive (may show up as hd or sata or ide..or something like that) is the primary boot device.
jayc4life
06-10-2008, 07:27 PM
or, while in DOS, type in
cd C:\
to activate the hard disk that way. Although good luck trying to find how to start windows using that method.