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 Post subject: Laptop HD
PostPosted: Fri 06-19-2009 2:40PM 
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I'm attempting to reinstall Windows XP on an Inspiron 8600 with a new hard drive after the first one fried itself. After getting most of the way through installation, I get bsod with a driver error, and now when I run the XP install disk it says it can't do anything cause there's no hard drive. bios doesn't even recognize that theres a hard drive, and neither does the one-time boot menu. I'd run a few floppy drive diagnostic things, but floppy drives are in short supply on laptops, lol. Anyone have any idea how/if I can salvage the situation?

-It's not a SATA bios configuration problem, cause its an older lappy with an IDE setup.


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 Post subject: Re: Laptop HD
PostPosted: Mon 06-29-2009 7:01PM 
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Would the HDD need to be formatted in another computer, beforehand?


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 Post subject: Re: Laptop HD
PostPosted: Fri 07-03-2009 9:53AM 
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The hard drive on my laptop seems to fail about once a year... It does the same as you explained.
First you get driver missing errors, then it gets worse... the BIOS will eventually not pick it up anymore.

Mine is SATA and I put it in my desktop and ran some HDD tools, and they all said bad sectors, can not be repaired.
Luckily, western digital has a good warranty.

You should borrow a laptop from a friend and slap it in there to see if it shows in their BIOS.
Hopefully something did not dry your new hard drive already!

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