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I Have a Dell Latitude d400 laptop, I'm using an external floppy disk drive to try to load ms-dos back on my laptop, so when I restart my laptop I get the Dell logo then starting then A:\.

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Wow the only post world wide wanting DOS, are you just kidding OP?

why not just USE FREEDOS.

get RUFUS free, click the freedos box in RUFUS
the burn it to USBs stick and boot the USB stick
and now you have FREEDOS.
C:/ then type VER, enter, see FREEDOS.

park the floppies, in the landfill where they belong long ago.

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Please try rebooting the system and on start up press F8 to get to the start up menu. Select the option LAST KNOWN GOOD CONFIGURATION and you may be able to save yourself a lot of trouble. 

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SOURCE: Dell d400 problems with Western Digital 32 gig hard drive

try connecting to a differnt port if it still does the same thing change the usb cable because what i understand is there is a loose connection somewhere ... or the best thing is contact dell at 18006249896 and ask them that u want to change the internal hdd and they will tell u what maximum the system can support and which is available with them ... its their system and if u buy parts from them they have to support u and make sure they both work

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SOURCE: Dell 1209S Projector "Searching for Signal" with Laptop

Try fn + f8, then wait and see if the projector detects the port (15 seconds or so) if no change, try Fn+F8 a 2nd time

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SOURCE: dell latitude D610. Screen goes black. External Monitor OK.

Make sure you have not accidentally used the FN+F5 key
That combination sets the laptop to use an external display.

If using that does not give you a display take a small torch (flashlight if in USA) and shine it at an angle on the laptop screen.
If you can see any sort of picture you would be looking at replacement of some minor parts to the laptop screen

Hope this gives you the information you need. If not add any extra information you may have and lets see if we can FixYa

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