chrisf-1

Hi everyone I hope someone can be of help to me here I have just sold my Dell XPS 720 and before parting with it I wished to remove all of my personal stuff and my win 7 OS for my new acquisition so thinking I was being clever I formatted my hard drive and was going to reload the original XP system it came with but I have come across problems when I load a windows CD it is not recognised by the drive so I thought maybe I have to load the drivers first but as it is not recognizing the CD drive I transferred both the drivers and the XP operating system to USB sticks and it is not recognising those either, and there is yet another problem when I decided t change to windows7 I also upgraded the RAM from 2GB to 8GB will my my system key still work on a 64 bit windows XP system as I understand a 32 bit system will not be able to utilise all the ram installed, can anyone talk me through exactly what I need to do here because unless I can show it working to it's potential the buyer will not want it many thanks Chris

hi danzil thanks for the reply but i am giving up on this i have found a lot of what i wanted pics etc on my usb stick from when i put them there intending to put on my laptop but it took up to much space and luckily i did not clear it Chris

Thats tooo heavy for me i can buy a new computer for that money looks like I will have to start again Thanks Chris

Hi again everyone I have removed the hard drive from the computer and it an IDE hard drive I will list below what is says on the label WD Caviar western digital WD200 WDenhanced IDE hard drive drive parameters LBA390625000 S/N WMACK1824374 MDL W02000JB-75QUAD DS/N MY - 12555-349-0060 DP/N 07U480 Rev ADO C/O MY HDD S/N: WD-WMACK1824374 I would be really grateful if someone could tell me how to retrieve data from it, it is lifeless in the computer which is not seeing it I know its there I have used it for the past 5 years. Also will I be able to use one of the caddies for this as the size is 4 inches across Thanks Chris

Hi thanks again everyone and i would be grateful for the links but I really do think it is the hard drive that has died so maybe the wire adapter prove it one way or another Thanks Chris

I do not know how to find out which hard drive it is I can only get the information I have posted but it is starting look like being scrapped but I cant complain I've had it from new over 5 years ago it has never given trouble before I thought it was bullet proof any suggestions gratefully received for recovering info on the hard drive but it appears to be inactive. Thanks Chris

Hi again everyone and thanks for the replies. I have checked the connections to the hard drive and evrything else visible and everything seemed good so here goes with what it gives me on set up from top down dell dimension 8300 series intel pentium 4 processor 2.66ghz level 2 cache 512 intergrated bios version AO1 service tag H9SQQ0J SYSTEM TIME CORRECT DATE CORRECT DRIVE CONFIGURATION ENTER HARD DISK DRIVE SEQUENCE ENTER BOOT SEQUENCE ENTER In fact everything else on the list is standard and they all say enter I have now entered drive configuration and a box saying diskette a/; 3.5inch 1.44 mb sata primary drive unknown device sata secondary drive unknown device primary master drive " " " " primary slave drive " " " " secondary master drive cd-rom device secondary slave drive " " " " ide drive UDMA on That is about as much as I can tell you on one occasion I managed somehow I do not how to get further in and it told me hard drive not found I am only a beginner experience wise and also at typing woul you believe it has took me about 45 minutes to type this, anyway thanks everyone for your help and I hope I have given you enough info to make some sense out of. I realy could do with firing this system up as there a lot of info on it I need to recover Thanks again Chris

Hi thanks for the replies I will do it tomorrow as the base unit is sharing the same equipment as this one, tomorrow I will plug the laptop in so I can stay in touch I have checked all the connections and they appear good.Thanks Chris

Hi again everyone I have just tried to boot up my old Dell dimension which I shut down properly about a month ago and it will not boot I went into set up and it tells me sata hard drive not found can anyone give me a clue what to do in laymans terms any advice gratefuly recieved Thanks Chris

How do I do that it works from a usb wireless thingimy I plugged it in and it works there was no disk with it Thanks Chris

Yes it does the same on another dell I have just plugged in Chris

Thanks for the replies everyone and after viewing them I think that I wiil scrap it and use the drives etc Chris

Hi again everyone I am having a problem with email notifier which is in one of my toolbars I have tried several times to activate it but it always tells me my email address is not recognised but it is the same address I used for this site and I get mail from everywhere else and on the first box that appears it boasts that it supports yahoo which is who I am with I have tried to establish exactly who is the owner of the toolbar and it is powered by conduit that is all I can find out. I really need a notifier for email as the only time I see it is start and often I am looking for immediate replies but am not prepared to look at inbox all day waiting I am surfing elsewhere any advice greatly appreciated. Thanks Chris

Hi again everyone I am having a problem with my logitech rx720 wireless laser mouse, it becomes most apparent when my wife plays solitaire it seems to freeze. I was originally using XP and have just upgraded to windows 7 ultimate but the problem is the same with both, the surface I am using it on is an everyday office or maybe kitchen work top when it freezes if moved about randomly it comes back to life I have renewed the batteries and that has not made any difference any suggestions gratefully received thanks Chris

Hi again every I Tried to power up the computer and it decided not to boot but i got the spec from set up page, here goes Dell dimension 8300 Intel pentium 4 2.66 GHz level cache 512 integrated bios A01 service tag H95QQ0J system 512k ddr sdram memory speed 333 MHz system memory channel mode dual agp aperture 128mb CPU speed normal bus speed 533mhl processor id f27 clock speed 266GHz cache size512k Well I hope that gives enough as it would not boot up saying hard drive disconnected I looked inside and could not see anything obvious but I am beginning to think it might be better to get another system complete please let me know your opinions or if there is anything worth salvaging from it thanks Chris