Dell inspiron 8100 notebook

Feb 26, 2009

- Have you checked to make sure that all of the pins on the hard drive are intact and not bent or broken, I had a similar problem with a desktop and found a bent pin that was ocasionally making contact. If that isnt the problem then there may be a problem with the read head or the recording medium its self. You can get a 40 gig laptop for about 40$(which is a bunch in this economy) as a last resort, i would just makesure that the cmos battery is good and bios boot section are correct and if that doesn't work you may want to try a replacement of the hard drive if a format and reinstallation of the os dont fix the problem. Good Luck!