Dell Inspiron 1525 Notebook "hard drive wont stay" Questions

...hard drive last night still wont come on and battery lights flash 4 orange and 1 green don't know if that will help but just in case, screen also wont come on. Normally the battery light will rapidly ...

...a few hours (especially large capacity hard disks) as it need to do several passes over the whole drive. Just let it run until it finishes, you know if it is still running by the flashing disk

hard drive, CD drive, battery and memory and try starting the system. What should happen is the caps lock and scroll lock lights shoud light up (num lock stays off) to indicate a memory problem (since

...hard drive boot sector problems, depending on OS used. If the BIOS has been updated, then it is possibly an incorrect version or corrupt. If you can reflow the soldering, remove the BIOS chip and fit ...

...hard drive, computer wont stay on long enough to use recovery disk I replaced the hard drive. I must admit that the Laptop has been sitting unused for a year along with the hard drive that Toshiba ...

...hard disk drive. First run diagnostics on the hard drive (Fn Key plus the Power Button) see if the hard drive fails diagnostics. If it fails the diagnostic, then replace the hard drive. If it passes, ...

...hard drive is faulty and has some bad sectors on it. Take the hard drive and boot the machine to rule out any other possibilities of problems with the laptop itself, if it stays on and just says hard ...

...hard drive is working "hard drive light will flicker" hook a external monitor to the video output on the back of your laptop if you see windows boots up then it would indicate laptop screen problem, ...

...drive my hard drive ive tried to reinstall win xp ive tried to restore defaults in set up menu by presseing f2 wen the laptop comes on but dont get an option to save changes please please please help ...

wont stay on my acer aspire 5100 laptop does not stay on, even when plugged in I had this problem too. I bought a hard drive and installed it. Works fines noiw. Hope this helps