Joined: Sun 11-19-2006 9:39PM Posts: 275 Location: 20,000 feet and 800 knots
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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.
Joined: Tue 08-15-2006 6:22PM Posts: 255 Location: Tetromino House
Source: Off Campus
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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