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artesian79
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October 19th, 2022 15:00
Studio 1558
I'm trying to help a friend and am running out of time. The Studio 1558 is very old but since it's used maybe three times a year to create a short document and then email it to about 30 people this meets his needs. I gave it to him and am now dealing with a ton of viruses and trogens. I wiped the disk as though I were going to donate it. I can't get the Dell Reinstallation disk to work. I can't remember the error but I'm thinking it didn't find the hdd after waiting a long time watching the spinning disk logo.
A local store has the following ssd's which are cheaper than a 7200 rpm hdd:
Inland Professional 128GB SSD 3D TLC NAND SATA 3.0 6 GBps 2.5 Inch 7mm Internal Solid State Drive $17
Crucial BX500 240GB SSD Micron 3D NAND SATA III 6Gb/s 2.5" Internal Solid State Drive $25
Either of these should work, correct?
Maybe I'm not using the reinstall disk correctly. Can someone point me to the appropriate documentation as it has been a while since I've done this. (What happened to BIOS and what is this UEFI! - just teasing I don't need to understand more on it I'm just making a point.)
artesian79
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Posted October 19th, 2022 16:00
I'm using the Dell reinstallation optical disk they used to supply, and a USB attached CD/DVD drive.
artesian79
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Posted October 19th, 2022 18:00
BIOS/UNEFI sees the drive. I don't get a boot error. It does boot from the dvd. All looks well and I am given choices for where I am in the world. It just goes off to load the software and eventually comes back saying it couldn't install or complete. I don't remember. I decided that the software I used may have rendered the drive unusable and decided to get a new drive.
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Posted October 20th, 2022 04:00
I just thought of this.... I wonder if the software I used removed the partitions? I'll try the cmd line diskpart before I go buy a new drive.
artesian79
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Posted October 22nd, 2022 15:00
Today I slaved the HDD to another computer to see what if files had been written to the disc. Remember, this was the original HDD and it had been formatted so if the Writes really had failed the disc would not have any files.
The normal directories were in place: PerfLogs, Program Files, Program Files (x86),
Users, Windows, and a document named Recovery. And just to be sure the formatting did work and these files were newly written I confirmed that Users did not include any usernames.
I'm going to clear CMOS again and cannot think of anything else to clear this false error. If there is some way to turn Network Boot off I'd try that. Network is listed next to the last in Boot order just before Diagnostics which run clean. Does anyone know if there is a way to turn off Network or actually remove the Network entry?
Can you think of something else I can do to resooe this?
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Posted October 19th, 2022 15:00
Any 2.5" SATA SSD should work, but you may need a spacer, since the drive will be far slimmer than a 9.5 mm hard drive.
It's not clear what you're using as a reinstall disc -- is it an optical (DVD) disc? Or a flash drive?