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Name: Alex01 Date: September 4, 2007 at 02:07:17 Pacific OS: win xp CPU/Ram: 256 Product: '''
Comment:
Hi! I have bought a (second hand)computer. when I started the computer , it dose not work and asks that I must insert system disk. I don't know what the system disk is. I dont know which version of windows is installed on the pc.
Name: Razor2.3 Date: September 4, 2007 at 02:37:59 Pacific
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I dont know which version of windows is installed on the pc. Here's a hint: None.
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Response Number 2
Name: Sci-Guy Date: September 4, 2007 at 03:16:53 Pacific
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You either have:
1: No operating system installed, or 2: No hard drive installed, or 3: A dead hard drive, or 4: A floppy disk in the floppy drive, or 5: Any combination of the above.
Please let us know if you found someone's advice to be helpful.
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Response Number 3
Name: Razor2.3 Date: September 4, 2007 at 03:51:14 Pacific
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I'm just wondering how one can have no HDD, but still have an OS installed. Flash RAM?
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Response Number 4
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: September 4, 2007 at 04:32:57 Pacific
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"I have bought a (second hand)computer."
Now you need to get and install an OS. You didn't bother to say what the CPU is, but if PIII or better, I recommend win2000.
===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.
M2
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Response Number 5
Name: Sci-Guy Date: September 4, 2007 at 05:39:01 Pacific
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"I'm just wondering how one can have no HDD, but still have an OS installed."
Refer to "5: Any combination of the above."
In hindsight, I should have said "and/or".
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Response Number 6
Name: aegis Date: September 4, 2007 at 09:59:11 Pacific
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Yup, Sci-Guy's response pretty much said it all for this problem. :-)
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Response Number 7
Name: soupnasty Date: September 4, 2007 at 14:07:00 Pacific
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Quote: Sci-Guy = "I'm just wondering how one can have no HDD, but still have an OS installed."
Where in the OP's post say that he did not have a harddrive in his computer?
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Response Number 8
Name: Sci-Guy Date: September 4, 2007 at 17:08:05 Pacific
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soupnasty,
You really should read the thread in its entirety.
I never suggested that the OP said he didn't have a hard drive (nor did anyone else suggest this).
I simply pointed out one possibility as to the cause of the problem.
You wrongfully attributed a sentence to me (with your quotation).
Again, read the thread properly.
Please let us know if you found someone's advice to be helpful.
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