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PC no bootee, but drives visible
It's an old Dell Inspiron. Has i3 sticker on, but somebody upgraded to i5.
Will not boot from hard disk or CD. The drives show up in BIOS. The Dell has diagnostic in boot menu, which tests RAM and drives. Althought these are "DST" short tests, which don't appear to do a scan. Swapped the drives over to other SATA ports, no help. Then plugged in another DVD drive, that will not boot either. So it is some weird fault - the drives say yes I am here, but aren't dispatching a functioning boot sector? Anyway, it will probably go to recycling yard. Just curious if anybody else has had similar hassles. |
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