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| DonTraver |
 Mar 13 2006, 09:31 AM
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I've got a Dell Inspiron 2650 with a Hitichi Model DK23DA-30F Hard Drive. It won't boot up, when I use a boot disk it will boot to the A: drive in DOS, when I try to go to the C:\ drive, says it isn't there. Think the hard drive has failed, not sure, but I've never had one fail before.
2 questions. 1. Is the drive gone? 2. Does anyone know where I can get another one, I called Dell, they want $170 for a new drive. Looking on the web, I see a lot of drives 60 gig and below for under $100, just haven't found one with the right part number. This drive is a 30 gig, a 20 gig would do, I don't download any music or stuff like that, mostly store pictures, files, etc. I just backed up everything on the desktop, the laptop was my backup, lol. Murphy Rules. Thanks, Don |
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| anthony |
Mar 13 2006, 09:48 AM
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If your drive is ntfs formatted (most likely unless you are running windows 98) then your DOS floppy boot would not see the drive.
You can try booting with your windows 2000/XP CD as if you were going to install the OS. It should "see" your drives partitions if the drive is good. |
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DonTraver OT- Laptop Hard Drive Mar 13 2006, 09:31 AM
bd1308 *ANY* drive will work just fine.
I'll install... Mar 13 2006, 09:44 AM bd1308 yeah but 'fdisk' in dos will see a non-dos... Mar 13 2006, 09:53 AM DonTraver Here's what I get when I try to boot.
We apol... Mar 13 2006, 10:19 AM bd1308 yep. something in the start-up phase in windows is... Mar 13 2006, 10:23 AM Spoke I had a similar issue with my desktop PC where the... Mar 13 2006, 10:44 AM SoCal Driver If you are using XP and you have a windows XP CD y... Mar 13 2006, 11:10 AM DonTraver I had just run my spy ware and virus programs a co... Mar 13 2006, 11:19 AM bd1308 well if you need me, pm me or go to my link and fi... Mar 13 2006, 11:29 AM DonTraver I found the disk, yay.
Anyway, put it in the D ... Mar 13 2006, 11:40 AM newto914s Same thing happen to me around three months ago. A... Mar 13 2006, 02:18 PM bd1308 ask Z, his drive was clicking and I got everything... Mar 13 2006, 02:20 PM
newto914s I´ll be in KY the week before Easter visiting my ... Mar 13 2006, 02:53 PM |
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