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Thread #78328   Message #1406420
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
11-Feb-05 - 06:12 PM
Thread Name: Tech: lost hard drive ?
Subject: RE: Tech: lost hard drive ?
With a system as old as this I think the BIOS answer is the best starting place. Drive mapping probably sets the BIOS, but I don't remember if WinME is set up for that. I've been fooling with it in a network environment, and you aren't setting up a network.

To get to the BIOS, there is usually a DOS looking black screen and white text displaying the information for the command when the computer first starts--something along the lines of "press F-8 (or 10) to reach system setup." That's the BIOS. You have to be quick sometimes to catch that setting; if you miss it, turn off the computer and try again. (You don't need to let Windows set up all of its stuff before turning it off.) Move through the screens and selections with the tab, up and down arrows, and the escape key. There is always the question at the end if you want to save the changes and quit Setup--if you aren't sure if you got it right, don't save the changes and go through it again.

SRS