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[SuperMan]

You have a cd burner? You should be able to take the files for the boot disk and make a bootable cd using nero.

[syntax53]

Originally posted by Relorian

I also tried conneecting a Slave Win98 formatted 10 gig drive. Not only is this a Non booting drive, but its set to slave already... but for some reason it tries to boot off the drive.



Originally posted by Stupid

If this is still true then I don't see how it could have anything to do with the compaq drive.



this is a good point. if it is still trying to boot off of a different non-booting drive then it's gotta be either the bios or jumpers. did you try setting them as cable select with them hooked up on the IDE cable like i said earlier? what if you switch the channels too? try putting the secon hard drive on like the secondary ide channel. i'm assuming you have a cd-rom drive too, so put it on the second channel as a slave.



-syn

[Relorian]

tried all this, no change. im takin it in to a friend who works in an IT department for the local hospital. Hopefuly he can fix my problems.

[NIN]

IT = Information Technology



IT is not hardware

IT kinda is a leader of the other people(like programmers)

IT comes up with goals and stuff like that ;)

[Speed]

umm, you are right to say that IT = Information Technology, but hardware support is under that category dude.

[NIN]

k, thanx for the correction

but all the ITs i've known didnt know jack about hardware

shrug

fuck the Nextel ITs ;)

[syntax53]

I work in the IT department for a school district. I do all sorts of repairs, both hardware and software, and I'm very good at both. I know the "I" in IT stands for information, but I don't think it's refering to software. If it is, it's not set in stone. IT to most people is just a general term for a technology person/industry/business/job/etc.



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[Speed]

I don't think there is an IT division at every company, and then a "computer hardware" division. The IT guys handle software, hardware, network, everything dealing with computers.

[NIN]

IT = information technology



so back to relorian's prob:

its either: (jumpers(on hard diskS)/bios/cables) IMO



ever think of deleteing the OS off of the win98 drive? heh



i've had these kinda problems before, but easily fixable!

[NIN]

Information Technology



(IT) Applied computer systems - both

hardware and software, and often including networking

and telecommunications, usually in the context of a business

or other enterprise. Often the name of the part of an

enterprise that deals with all things electronic.



The term "computer science" is usually reserved for the more

theoretical, academic aspects of computing, while the vaguer

terms "information systems" (IS) or "information services" may

include more of the human activities and non-computerised

business processes like 'knowledge management'. Others say

that IT includes computer science.