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Kevin Nowicki <[log in to unmask]>
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In a message dated 10/15/98 12:09:36 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
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<< I also finally went to the registry, to the keys for the hard disk
 controllers. They were at My
 Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\hdc\

 From there, I deleted all unneeded controller entries.

 Then, finally, I was able to delete (from Control Panel) the
 yellow-exclamation-marked hard disk controller entry.
  >>

Thanks Michael!

I did the above and deleted the values under "hdc" "0000"thru "0003".  I
restarted and the computer hung.  Soft boot and the exclamation under hard
disk controller went away.

Performance, under System, still said it was running dos mode paging.  I went
back and deleted the hdc key altogether.  Now there is no hard disk controller
listed in device manager and it is still in dos paging mode and still has the
"MBR modified " message.

What do I do now?  Should I reformat and start from scratch?

TIA
Kevin Nowicki

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