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hard drive not recognized
This Inpiron 5421 laptop was dropped and now the bios doesn't recognize the HDD. I'm gonna try to save the data off it and get another HDD. Since the RESTORE partition is on the old HDD, how do I go about restoring the Windows 8 system on this new HDD? Can I download the correct files and drivers?
dallascowboyswo
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Posted February 9th, 2015 12:00
You might try re-seating your hard drive. By this I mean completely remove and re-insert it in it's proper slot. If you re-seat and it still does not recognize it then you either have a faulty drive or slot. The best way to test it is to put in another hard drive and see if it recognized in the BIOS.
leopoldik
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Posted February 9th, 2015 12:00
What conserns the data from your old HDD, I hope some one helps you to restore them. But if we are talking about the newerest one - you shoul install everything from the very beginning