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Re: verifying dmi pool failure
« Reply #15 on: January 18, 2005, 01:08:17 AM »
the hard drive light flashed once in unison with the cd light
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    Re: verifying dmi pool failure
    « Reply #16 on: January 18, 2005, 01:12:08 AM »
    odd........try opening the cd drive ...close it up and hit enter again ....see if it will do anything
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    « Reply #17 on: January 18, 2005, 01:12:43 AM »
    still no luck.

    i feel a format coming on...  :-X
    « Last Edit: January 18, 2005, 01:13:46 AM by tf195 »
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    « Reply #18 on: January 18, 2005, 01:16:26 AM »
    do you think that if i was to put the hard drive in a different computer to try and back up my files it would put the other computer at risk? or work at all?
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      Re: verifying dmi pool failure
      « Reply #19 on: January 18, 2005, 01:17:13 AM »
      if you have a win 98 boot disk......change the bios to boot from floppy and then with the cd still in the drive let it boot and when you get A: prompt ......see if you can change to D if that the cd drive .....if you get the D prompt .....type dir and see if the cd is read
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        Re: verifying dmi pool failure
        « Reply #20 on: January 18, 2005, 01:21:33 AM »
        if you installl your drive in another as a slave ......you may be able to get at your files ...and it won't hurt the other pc
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        « Reply #21 on: January 18, 2005, 01:33:07 AM »
        ok, ran dir on d prompt, came up with
        volume in drive d is winxp_pro
        directory of d:
        autorun     INF          110
        DOCS               (DIR)
        I386                 (DIR)
        README     HTM         3204
        SETUP       EXE         1310 720
        SUPPORT          DIR
        VALUEADD         DIR
        WIN51                            10
        WIN51IP                        10

            5 file(s)            1314054 bytes
            4 dir(s)             0 bytes free
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          Re: verifying dmi pool failure
          « Reply #22 on: January 18, 2005, 01:35:06 AM »
          ok ......then at the D: promt type SETUP  and enter
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          « Reply #23 on: January 18, 2005, 01:36:00 AM »
          "this program can not be run in dos mode."

          thankyou very much for this, hopefully we are getting somewhere.
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            Re: verifying dmi pool failure
            « Reply #24 on: January 18, 2005, 01:38:54 AM »
            *censored* ...this win xp pro ......have a look in the I386 dir
            I think xp pro loads differant than xp
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            Re: verifying dmi pool failure
            « Reply #25 on: January 18, 2005, 01:40:54 AM »
            how do i go about that?  :-/
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              Re: verifying dmi pool failure
              « Reply #26 on: January 18, 2005, 01:46:21 AM »
              still in the dir of D ......then at the D prompt  type CD\I386   and enter ....
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              « Reply #27 on: January 18, 2005, 01:48:29 AM »
              "invalid directory"  ??? checked it a few times, typed it correctly.
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                Re: verifying dmi pool failure
                « Reply #28 on: January 18, 2005, 01:51:43 AM »
                Here's the info on a clean install .........choose the graghics version ......Im sure theres something in there about I386 .....but have a read .......I'm going to hit the hay .....
                http://www.theeldergeek.com/xp_pro_install_-_graphic.htm
                I wish I had paid more attention to learning more about DOS

                I'll look for you tomorrow

                dl65  ::)
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                Re: verifying dmi pool failure
                « Reply #29 on: January 18, 2005, 01:53:21 AM »
                thank you so much for your help
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