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January 30th, 2005 03:00

formatting

I am formatting my inspiron 8500 because of a bluescreen error (kernal stack inpage). When I go to format using the windows xp installation cd it stops at 20% and says that setup was unable to format the partition and the disk may be damaged. Anyone else have this problem?

Message Edited by jesst7 on 01-30-2005 12:24 AM

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    Ambers

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    Posted January 30th, 2005 08:00

    Reboot the system using f12 as its starting- choose diags from the list- then custom test then hard drive.  Sounds like you need a new hard disk but do this to confirm
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    Posted January 30th, 2005 12:00

    I called dell this morning and I did the diagnostics test, I got the error 0F00:244 uncorrectable data error or media is write protected. They told me that I need to replace my hard drive and there also may be a lcd problem. My warranty just ended a month ago so does anyone know the best way to fix the problem without it being too expensive?

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