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b_b  ·  4036 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The word on the Bird

First of all, love the tag. Second, thanks for the update.

mk gave me a laptop that died, but there's possibility I could rehab it to send it off (with his permission of course, as its not really mine). Comes up with a non-system disk error on startup and won't go any further. Any computer people familiar with a phantom non-system disk error? briandmyers, akkartik, or anyone?





briandmyers  ·  4036 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Sound like a HD problem (can't boot off the hard drive, maybe?). If you have a system disk, try booting from that (but you probably don't). An Ubuntu boot disk might also let you access it.