[dirtfarmer]

problem
it seem my compter runing is ms dos mopde and i lost bith my cd rom drive, and i ahve no idea why oor how it happen

in device manager it tell me that i lost both primary and secondary IDE controller,
and that drive c hard drive is using ms dos compatibity mode????????

how the question why and how did i get t here?

 

[jgvernonco]

LeeTutor's explainations and instructions are often the best (for me). Check this out first:

http://home.earthlink.net/~leetutor/FixWin/Hardware/msdos.htm

Here's a resource that looks straight forward:

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000143.htm

This one has some pretty clear instructions:

http://www.infinisource.com/techfiles/msdos-compatibility.html

Let us know whether or not this gets you anywhere.