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Buggswamp

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- Sep 17, 2015 at 10:44 PM
buggswamp - Sep 19, 2015 at 10:25 AM

I have a Dell desktop with Dimension C251. Just changed the battery and followed steps to get rid do diskette drive 0 seek failure message. Still have no boot device detected message- how do I get rid of this so my computer will run?

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xpcman · Answer 1 · 2015-09-18T12:00:40-0400

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Sep 18, 2015 at 12:00 PM

This message is often caused by a faulty hard drive.

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Sep 19, 2015 at 10:25 AM

Well, couldn't be prouder of myself because I fixed it. I followed directions and went into F2 under drives and changes so the hard drive was #1 which it wasn't and then restarted. It worked and my favorite old computer is chugging right along.

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