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01-03-2009	#1 (permalink)
newlin08 Just Joined! Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 2	Booting Happy New Year I was just wondering, I have started my dell 8200 using the knoppix dvd, reason: damage hardrive, someone recommended to do this, however the issueI have is that I have not idea how to locate my hard drive, please help Thank you

01-03-2009	#2 (permalink)
yancek Linux Engineer Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Tucson AZ Posts: 842	How is your hard drive damaged? I'm not sure what you mean by "I have no idea how to locate my hard drive"?? What happened to make you think your hard drive is damaged. More details on what happened would be helpful.

01-03-2009	#3 (permalink)
newlin08 Just Joined! Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 2	please help when ever I tried to run the computer it tells me that I need to Press f1 or f2 to set up, the computer locates the hard drive but cannot read it, Ive reset the BIOS.... The cables are fine ( I tried a different HDD and it worked) I removed the bad hdd from the computer and added as a slave to my HP, the HP tells me (win xp) it is there but under my computer cannot find it.

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