Dell 5150, 5100 manual Accessing Help, Error Messages

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Accessing Help

TO A C C E S S T H E TE L L ME HO W H E L P F I L E —

1 Click the Start button and click Help and Support.

2 Click User and system guides and click User’s guides. 3 Click Tell Me How.

TO A C C E S S H E L P I N WI N D O W S XP —

1 Click the Start button and click Help and Support.

2 Type a word or phrase that describes your problem and then click the arrow icon.

3 Click the topic that describes your problem.

4 Follow the instructions shown on the screen.

Error Messages

If the message is not listed, see the documentation for the operating system or the program that was running at the time the message appeared.

TH E F I L E B E I N G C O P I E D I S T O O L A R G E F O R T H E D E S T I N A T I O N

D R I V E — The file that you are trying to copy is too large to fit on the disk, or the disk is too full. Try copying the file to a different disk or use a larger capacity disk.

AF I L E N A M E C A N N O T C O N T A I N A N Y O F T H E F O L L O W I N G

C H A R A C T E R S : \ / : * ? “ < > — Do not use these characters in filenames.

IN S E R T B O O T A B L E M E D I A — The operating system is trying to boot to a nonbootable floppy disk or CD. Insert a bootable floppy disk or CD.

NO N -S Y S T E M D I S K O R D I S K E R R O R — A floppy disk is in the floppy drive. Remove the floppy disk and restart the computer.

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