Dell site should have info regarding the removal of old drive. Then install new drive in its place and install the recovery disks that you got or made. Hopefully the new drive will come with the software to prepare the drive for loading although some of the newer OS disks will do it for you.
SOURCE: disk drive not found
It sounds like the hard drive went bad. Can you see the hard drive in the bios at all? When you try and boot the computer does it say drive not found? Try booting from the vista cd and see if you can start a new installation. If you can do the intallation the drive is ok. If not the hard drive is bad.
SOURCE: Cannot dismount Drive to format.
Its better to go into DOS directly then trying things thru windows since its not working properly.
Try using a win98 boot and you'll go to a A:\
When you get there type in FDISK and what you want to do is to delete all your partitions. Then once you do that go ahead and create a primary partition and when thats all done, let the system reboot and let it get back to the A:\
Once there type in this command:
format c: /u/c
As long as your hard drive is still good this will do a unconditional format while checking the clusters of the hard drive as well to make sure they are good. If there is problems it will either stop at a certain percentage or it will tell you "trying to recover file allocation table".
This is a good way of making sure your hard drive is completely clean before reinstalling anything back onto the hard drive.
Once this goes thru then you can put in your Operating System CD and when it gets to the point where it asks you to format then chooose Quick at that point and follow the prompts.
Hope this helps you out.
SOURCE: I can't reinstall Windows Vista for Dell Vostro 1700
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SOURCE: Can't start windows: Hard Drive - No drive detected
The laptop cannot see/detect the hard drive. This means the hard drive is faulty or it needs reaeating.
Remove the hard drive and inserting again, then reboot the laptop, if it still cannot detect the hard drive then it is faulty.
You need to purchase a new one and install Windows on the new hard drive.
SOURCE: Dell XPS 600 turns itself on to solid amber
Hi. the mother board seems to be having some initialization issues during boot up. this is common when the mother board is failing. i would check to make sure the battery on this board is working. if it is, the board my be ruined.
power board seems to be fine.
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