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GRAMPS passed away, Gramma needs help

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GRAMPS

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My husband Dwight, aka GRAMPS, the D in Team R&D, was a dedicated reader of this forum. He passed away Sept. 18th after a 4 year battle with lung & spinal cancer. He started to build me a new computer but was too sick to finish it. Son-in-law put my old hard drive in with the 2 new ones (to recapture old passwords & programs) and the screen says .DR is missing. It didn't say that before the 3rd hard drive was put in. Should old HD be tossed? I also have totes, boxes and a dresser full of MB's, wires, memory, processors etc. that I know nothing about or whether they are good or bad. Can any of that be tested? HELP!!
 
The boot-priority reset to one of the new harddrives which doesn't have windows on it... so it tries to boot but finds nothing.

Have your son-in-law make sure the drive with windows is set to boot-priority.

Or if they're not SATA drives, make sure the IDE drives are set to master and slave correctly.
 
Yeah, what he said.


The computer is trying to boot from the wrong hard drive.
It should boot from the harddrive that has the Windows operating system.

To force it, you have to rearrange the boot order, in the bios setup (press del or F2 when booting).
 
My condolences.

Try what was mentioned above.

What are the specs of the old system?
What are the specs of the new system?
As much detail as possible would help greatly.

Yes, they can all be tested. You'll probably need a guide to building computers, so you can get familiar with the parts. Check this guide out:
http://www.mechbgon.com/build/index.html
 
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