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Old 07-25-2005, 08:58 PM   #1
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ok i got this old computer its a windows 98 and its not even an se. its 533mhz and i dont' really use it anymore so it was at my cuz's house. my cuz took out one of the harddrives and while doing so he broke pins for the power wire slot on the other hardrive. i got another oldcomputer that i have no idea what the specs are except that it had 128mb sd ram and its a dell well i took that harddrive out and put it in my old comp and started the computer. well the computer starts and it comes up to the windows 98 screen and everything but after that it says while initializing device IOS: Windows protection error you need to restart your computer. it says that everytime so i got xp os i thougth i could install in there well i went into bios to change it to boot from drive rather than boot from hard drive. i restarted my comp and it won't read from my drive so i can install the new os maybe i burned the os wrong? and i installed an aditional 64mb of sd ram i took out form the old dell and stuck it in there and it isnt being recognized. what do i do anything will help ilve come here before for help and ive been helped everytime i hope for that to happen again thank you all bye

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Old 07-26-2005, 08:42 AM   #2
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