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HDD Failure
I am hoping someone can shed some light on my problem. I own a inspirion 7500. I recently upgraded the HD to a 30 gig. The computer ran fine for several months, long enough for the warranty to run out. What happened is the computer crashed and after wards when I power the laptop on, a message says that there is no operating system. So I reload windows 2000 and as soon as the process gets to starting windows a message then appears stating that there is no HDD detected. Make sure the hdd is pluged in. What I have done so fa is to remove the hdd and reseat it. I have removed the battery and optical drive but afterwards it still doesn't see the hdd. I'm seriously thinking about getting a new hd but need to make sure that it is in fact the hd before I do. If the hd went goes out does it loose windows as well? thanks in advance
Brian
- It's possible that the hard drive is working intermittently. That's happened to me more then once.You said "you recently purchased a new hard drive and ran fine for several months, long enough for the warranty to run out."A new hard drive usually has at least 1 year warranty. Some have up to five years. Check the warranty of your hard drive before buying a new one.
- Thank you for the info, What I have done so far is to run a diag. test for the HD per Dell user manual for the specific HD. The message appears that the test is running, but almost immediately a message appears that the test is complete, but says nothing about the results. I've run this test about half a dozen times. The F2 route still says that the HD is missing. The tech support that I keep finding is for jumper settings and what not. So I think I'm at the buy a new HD and see if that fixes the issue, which is what I plan on doing if it is in fact just a HD issue and nothing else. Do you have any other diagnostic test that I can run to check?Brian
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Posted June 27th, 2007 18:00