(post and mail)

Hi Josh, thanks for checking in at the Reporting Blog!

Yeah, it's both peculiar and frustrating that the term "wireless" is being so widely and almost equally used for these two different systems.  

For that "drive not found" error you mention, try going into the boot-time BIOS Setup screen (I'd call it "the F2 screen" but the trigger key might be something else) and look for the listing of the drives.  If this is traditional IDE / Parallel-ATA, it probably shows two groups of two drives.  The entry for the actual hard drive (probably Drive 0 in the Primary) and the one for the CDROM drive (probably Drive 0 of the Secondary) of course should be on.  But if there's one listed as "AUTO" here (or even with a particular spec) that doesn't correspond to an actual hardware component, it will spend some time looking for that at boot time and issue that error.  So what you want to do is switch the entry to "NONE" for any nonexistent drive, and it should stop that fruitless looking.

  Later,

  ==Mitch


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