Soooo......those helpful people at Dell (I have a 2+year old Inspiron laptop) found that it was a slightly loose ***** (not) holding the cd-dvd...
OH!Kay! Cannot access the CD Rom from the startup disk. Next, will try to remove the controller from System Props and see if that helps....
What is an MJ??? I am suddenly having the same problem. Dell Inspiron Laptop WinMe
Use prcview to see what is running. The intermittent hard drive activity is probably system restore. I guess you could try to temporarily...
Go to www.purgeie.com try to use the help contents to delete the files for you from dos....easy and safe. Get rid of index.dat files. I have...
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