Norton Ghost 2003

[John]

Got Nortons Ghost 2003 and was transferring the C-Drive Content to the 80
gig F Drive. It stopped to reboot then upon starting again I found the
message 'Operating system missing' The systems completly frozen me out and
now CMOS is unavailable. Also the following messages appearing in the boot
up sequence

Suggested SDRAM CAS latency time is "2"

Suggested DRAM Clock is "133"

Primary IDE Channel . No 80 Conductor Cable installed'
Tried the HD on another computer and it didnt see it.Now everything
completely dead.Wont even try to start up.


Any ideas

[DT]

On Mon, 5 May 2003 10:19:39 +0100, "John" > wrote:

>.Now everything
>completely dead.Wont even try to start up.

Are you saying that that the system will not even try to start?

If you cannot even get into the BIOS at startup, try a boot floppy.
You can make a XP boot floppy from another XP installation. Put a
floppy into the A drive, go to my computer and right click the A
drive, format, tick the make a Dos system boot disk.

Try this to see if you can get into the Bios. If not you may have to
re flash the BIOS. Go to your mother board manufacture's web site and
get the info from them and download the flash programs.

When the BIOS is up, change the boot sequence to A, CD, HD. Then boot
from the XP cd and try a repair.

I have Ghost and have never ran into any problem.

Good luck.
Dave

[Amethyst]

John wrote:
> Got Nortons Ghost 2003 and was transferring the C-Drive Content to the 80
> gig F Drive. It stopped to reboot then upon starting again I found the
> message 'Operating system missing' The systems completly frozen me out
> and now CMOS is unavailable. Also the following messages appearing in the
> boot up sequence
>
> Suggested SDRAM CAS latency time is "2"
>
> Suggested DRAM Clock is "133"
>
> Primary IDE Channel . No 80 Conductor Cable installed'
> Tried the HD on another computer and it didnt see it.Now everything
> completely dead.Wont even try to start up.
>
>
> Any ideas

You were /transferring/ things to F?! No wonder you don't have an OS! Sounds
to me you shouldn't be allowed anywhere near Ghost - no make that a
computer. Somehow you've managed not only to alter the RAM timings but
killed the IDE connection too. You really are quite clever to achieve that
you know...

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[John]

Indeed.Actually it was my brother in law who created this mess and hopes I
will
solve it for him.He told me that both drives were now dead as he checked
them on another
computer.
I checked them both myself and they are ok,.He also admitted today that he
removed a recently installed bios chip and tried the old one but that didn't
work -only admitted this when
I suggested going back to the old bios.So where do I go from here?

[Harry Ohrn]

"John" > wrote in message
...
> Indeed.Actually it was my brother in law who created this mess and hopes I
> will
> solve it for him.He told me that both drives were now dead as he checked
> them on another
> computer.
> I checked them both myself and they are ok,.He also admitted today that he
> removed a recently installed bios chip and tried the old one but that
didn't
> work -only admitted this when
> I suggested going back to the old bios.So where do I go from here?
>


To the computer store with him and his credit card. A lesson learned the
hard way ---- through the pocket book!

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[Amethyst]

John wrote:
> Indeed.Actually it was my brother in law who created this mess and hopes I
> will
> solve it for him.He told me that both drives were now dead as he checked
> them on another
> computer.
> I checked them both myself and they are ok,.He also admitted today that he
> removed a recently installed bios chip and tried the old one but that
> didn't work -only admitted this when
> I suggested going back to the old bios.So where do I go from here?

Buy your brother in law an Etch-a-Sketch. He's too stupid to own a computer.

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