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    PC Question

    Fired up a PC sitting here for a couple of months. Got a blue screen and message "Memory Dump". Then black screen saying "Operating System Not Found". Subsequent boots goes right to "OS not found"

    I changed internal battery and no help. Make matters worse there is a bad CD drive on this machine and no current tape backup.

    It's an old Dell 550. I could pull the drive and slave it to the desktop I have now, but I would like to restore OS and save the files/programs so I can use this machine when others are busy.

    Any ideas? Oh yeah, OS is XP Pro
    Last edited by OMC; 04-30-2003 at 06:44 PM.
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    Can you reinstall XP? Or do you only have 1 license?

    EDIT

    No CD, my bad.
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    Your only option would be to slave it to another machine - take off the drive what you need and reformat it.

    Or get yourself a new CD drive so you can reinstall XP.

    Have you tried "safe mode"?
    It could also be that your HD may have gone out on you as well.
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