"Rick T" wrote in message
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Simon Woods wrote:
Hi

I'm trying to sort out a friends old pc. They've been running WinME on
it.
Recently it has stopped working. They haven't put in new hardware or
changed
anything. It just has stopped working. They've brought it round and when
I
boot up from either the hard disk or the CD nothing is recognised. I've
opened it up and pushed in all connections. Still no good.

I've been into BIOS and it says there are no hard drives. When I try and
boot up from the OEM CD recovery disk it fails saying I should put in a
bootable disk. The CD looks fine

I have managed to boot up from a floppy but again nothing else is
recognised.

So ... it is likely that it has had it and is now destined for it's
final
resting place (that is, becoming a linux server ;0))

because of course linux servers don't require boot devices

and can fit on a 1.44mb floppy ...


Thanks Rick and Noel

Simon