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Sorry if this post becomes lengthy.I am not sure if this is the right forum.If not please move it where it should be.I have had my Dell Inspiron 8200 for a few years now and have ran into problems now and again but now I am really stumped.This all started a while ago.First I started getting the error message "Fixed Optical Drive Not Found" after that the computer would go on the Window Vista loading screen and everything would be alright from there on.Even the CD drive would still work and read CDs(even though for a while I would constantly have to open and close the drive for the cd to be read.)Eventually it went to the point that I would have to completely take the CD drive out in order to boot.Later on I end up ruinied my AC adapter due to mistreatment and I got a replacement adapter.I had put my computer on sleep for nearly two weeks so my work would be saved until I received the adapter.I finally got the adapter and powered the laptop up w/out the CD drive.Everything was fine until I put the CD Drive back in while logged into Vista.The computer froze and then a blue screen appeared and said it was performing a physical memory dump.After that the laptop restarted and I have never been able to boot completely into vista ever since.With the CD drive out (and for some reason I have to disable the HDD in the boot sequence for this) I am able to start the process of booting into Windows,but I stay on the loading screen and never advance further.With the CD drive in I only get Primary hard disk drive not foundFixed optical drive not foundNo bootable devices detected--Press F1 to retry boot--Press F2 to enter system setupI don't know what else to do.Please HELP!!!:4-dontkno:sigh: