I've got a Dell Inspiron 530S with Windows Vista (blah blah windows sucks, I know) and I've recently run into a problem on start up with it. It turns on goes to the dell screen, and then when it tries to read the internal hard drive, well, it doesn't. At first it was looking for a floppy diskette drive, which doesn't even exist, so I went to the start up menu and changed to boot settings to not look for a floppy and just read the internal hard drive to boot. Well it still won't boot and it says Hard Drive Failure: Hard Drive not found. I've checked all the connections and cleaned everything, I've replaced the CMOS battery and still no progress.
Help?
Start-up issue
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by St. Jimmy » Sun May 15, 2011 10:41 pm
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion....you must first set yourself on fire.
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by Мастер » Sun May 15, 2011 11:15 pm
If you boot up with one of the various linux-on-a-cd distributions (e.g., Knoppix), you will be able to tell if it's a hardware problem or a Windows problem.
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by Lance » Mon May 16, 2011 12:57 am
Yeah, do that.
I fear your hard drive has died.
I fear your hard drive has died.
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Set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life.
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Build a man a fire and he will be warm for a few hours.
Set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life.
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by St. Jimmy » Tue May 17, 2011 3:50 am
I would just hook up the hard drive to a different computer, but I don't have access to one with the right connectors. =\
Do you guys know of any sites I can download linux to disc?
Do you guys know of any sites I can download linux to disc?
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by Мастер » Tue May 17, 2011 4:38 am
http://www.livecdlist.com/
Gparted is a specialised distro with disk partitioning tools, but it doesn't sound like partitioning is your issue . . .
I've used Knoppix and LFS. One of the "rescue" disks might be appropriate for you.
Gparted is a specialised distro with disk partitioning tools, but it doesn't sound like partitioning is your issue . . .
I've used Knoppix and LFS. One of the "rescue" disks might be appropriate for you.
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