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  1. Well that stinks..I was so hoping it was a fixable problem. Thanks for your help.
  2. Sorry about the confusion.... My hard drive was installed on sata 1and went unrecognizable. I took it out and put another hd in. same sata port. The new hd installed OS and has worked fine ever since. I needed more storage so I thought maybe I could fix my old hd instead of having to buy a new one. I put the old hd in my pc sata 3 and turned pc on (new one still connected). I thought maybe I could use my new hard drive to access the old one and run system check and tests to see if it could diagnose the problem. When i turned my pc on with both hd's connected it took about 10 minutes to load windows. It seems as if my pc is trying to read the other hard drive but that it dosent know what to do so it finally loads just the new one. I get no error messages or anything. It loads my OS on new hd with no problems, it just goes slower. I turned it on and off a few times and same results every time. It show no info pertaining to the old hd what-so-ever. Then I turned my pc off and booted from the dell diagnostics disk. I ran all of the tests and everything passed. But it's only running tests on the new hd. it is not able to see the old one. I turned pc off and disconnected hd in sata 1 and turned pc on only using old hd in sata 3. It comes up to the dell logo screen and asks for boot menu or setup. Bios still does not recognize the old hd. I rebooted the pc again and this time booted from cd. (tried vista and xp) The files load into memory and then it starts to install but immediately pops up saying that OS cannot be installed and the only option I get is to exit setup. (States no other info..Just that OS cannot be installed) I have tried this also on another pc and get the same results. I hope this new explanation helps and thanks again
  3. I bought a new pc last XMas and after about 5 months my PC apparently send out a classifieds ad asking for viruses and I think I ended up catching everyone that there is. I spent a month reformatting and at the end of the month I thought my problems were over and then my pc slowed again so I did a warm boot and was preparing ( and using words that would make my mother blush) to format again. However this time it came up a blank screen. I looked in the BIOS and my hd was not there. I put it in another pc and it was not recognized there either. I put a new hd in and it worked fine so I put the other one to the side and forgot about it. I pulled it out yesterday and started looking into trying to fix it. I installed it with my other hd and it slowed my pc down. Upon loading windows it acts as if it is trying to read the hd but finally gave up and loaded just the other one. In Bios it is not there but it is showing that something is installed on the sata that it is connected to. The hd runs smooth ( no noises at all. Purrs like a kitten) and looking at it it looks brand new ( not even a scratch and nothing looks burned on the board) So here are my questions.... If it is running that good can something still be bad? Is there anyway to rewrite a boot sector when you cant see the hd? Is there an initial programming on the hd that makes the pc read the hd (besides the boot info) and if there is, is there anyway to rewrite it? I have tried running OS disk and it says that it cannot be setup and prompts me to exit installation. (Vista and XP) I also want to apologize if my questions make no sense. I dont know alot about pc's and am just going by what I have found on the net. There is no main reason to worry with the hd (and I know that I can buy another one), I'm mostly just trying to solve a puzzle that is making me want to go into my backyard and bang my head against a tree. ;) Any and all help is greatly appreciated
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