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Happened when you added/removed the 80 gb ide drive. You'll need a partition manager or something like FDISK to look at the partitions and set your boot os partition to "active". Has happened to me several times.

Sounds like the drive your os is on is not set "active". the drive/partion that is currently active has no bootable os.

mattharms, Are you sure you are trying to log on to "this machine" only?? Should have choice of domain or local machine at login. Also possible windows password was/is not same as domain pswd. You're still going to have to call your admin folks or take pc back to them to get machine back on...

last post should read (ie. change it to a workgroup)

If you remove a machine from a domain (ie. change it to a be added back workgroup) it cannot be added back without administrator involvement.Yes,you gotta go begging the tech guys!!!

Per cmn , Malwarebytes is a jewel of a program to fret out bad stuff. You can get it free at malwarebytes.org. I have salvaged several friends' pc's with this product.

cmn, 2 instances I've seen were with Comcast where users account was created before a router was used. Account apparantly linked to MAC of the pc when activated. Other case was on a DSL setup where user wanted to add a router to existing modem. A Linksys techsupport guy clued me in...never would...

gagliard017, If you can get on internet connected straight to your modem then problem is not with pc or software. If you are using router for first time it is possible that Comcast will only allow access if it sees your pc MAC address. I have seen this issue many times. Try connecting pc to...

Control panel defaults on all versoins to category view.On 7057 ,select large or small icons and it automatically changes to detail view

edit windows explorer Tried the fix by reghakr but it defaults to "favorites" rather than "my computer":confused: