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Wont Load Desktop,Sais DETECT ERROR
Name: Sminokio Date: October 5, 2004 at 21:17:44 Pacific OS: windows nt CPU/Ram: 502mb
Comment:
Help!! My other computer was working fine yesterday and now all of a sudden it will not load desktop, will not even load windows...it just sits there with a black screen saying "Detect Error" in the bottom left hand corner. Can anyone give me some help or inform me of what this is. Thanks ahead of time.
Name: jubalsams Date: October 6, 2004 at 07:02:18 Pacific
Reply:
Gonna have to assume NT4 Workstation because you are not being specific and this is the NT3x-NT4 board. Does it freeze before or after the space bar thing ?
Do you have your Rdisk ? The procedure is to pretend you are gonna reinstall and half way thru the install asks "do you want to repair" then it asks : "Insert your RDISK".
Otherwise you are looking at a parallel reinstall (to save data) or a complete reinstall. Another way would be to install another hard drive as master and install on that, setting up the old drive as slave.
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