Re: Can not find hard drive

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From: David Candy (david_at_mvps.org)
Date: 10/04/04 

Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 08:31:14 +1000

The R:\T1140.gho thingy is probably the CDRom or is on the CDRom as that looks like a E-Tower model number. 

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"Matt Clayton" <Matt Clayton@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:EB851551-CD88-45D1-BCA6-EF93BFB8147B@microsoft.com...
> Let's start from the begining, this morning I woke up and pressed the power 
> button on my computer and it said something about the configuration was 
> messed up.  It gave a few options to boot up with and it recomended start up 
> normally.  I did so, it cycled back and did the same thing, so then I tried 
> last known configuration and so on and they all just cycled it back.  I 
> ripped out the dics that came with my computer so I could repair the 
> configuration.  Turned out that the disc gave me two options, reinstall 
> windows completely or boot to ms-dos mode.  Let's just say I have like 10 
> gigs of media that I in no way wanted to lose.  So I tried going to the 
> ms-dos screen and typing 'win'.  As that worked on windows98, it did not on 
> windowsxp.  So I figured I could just pull my hard drive and hook it up to 
> the slave on my dad's computer and copy all my media and burn them on to 
> cd's.  That didn't work.  So I hooked my hard drive back up to my computer 
> and now it says operating system not found when I start it up.  I tried using 
> the discs that came with my computer again and when it loads the disc it says 
> can't find file R:\T1140.gho  The problem is that that drive was D:\ 
> yesterday.  I have tried all of the solutions that I could find here, I 
> called tech support and they wouldn't help me unless I paid more money, so I 
> am leaving it all up to you.  If anyone can help it would be greatly 
> appreciated.  Thank you in advance.

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