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It worked!! thank you so much. i now have a working Laptop thank you so much

I Think its Sata... All Cables are in... seaDOS is able to find and scan it, and it shows in BIOS.

Hi, thanks for all the Advice. i went out and bought a new Hard Drive which i have Fitted pretty easily... now is the Fun part... It will not Boot From anything. I have The Vista disk In the laptop and it is saying no Boot device found. I have Tried a windows 7 disk in case it was my vista Disk that was a dud. I have Tried it on a bootable USB also which Does nothing at all... Apart from a J appearing on the Screen. I have Set the BIOS to Boot from DVD.. i can hear the DVD being read but it will not do anything, Yet the CD with the SEADOS will loads no problem? Any ideas on this one?

Yup... Hard drive gone to Tech Heaven :-( The SeaDOS couldnt repair the Faults Found. Bit the bullet and ordered a new HDD. Just got to wait for it to come, fit it and then see if i can get some DVD disks to put vista onto. thanks for all of your help emma

thanks for the links. i will take a look at those. Managed to redo diagnostics... went on Symptom tree for Cannot Boot OS. Got error code 0f00:075d Msg: DISK_0- self test read error This is the hard Drive failing then i take it?? it is only Failing the SATA test portions. Hmmmm.. never fitted a new HDD on a laptop before :( could be interesting. Will still have the issue of the ISO... it wont fit on a CD will it? i hate having to buy disks i wont use haha dont want to have to buy a pack of DVD unless i really have to

i can only assume that this is the boot disk that came with the machine as it is the only Dell in the house. I have Gone into the BIOS Only three options Internal HDD CD/DVD Drive Onboard NIC I can go into Bios Set up and Diagnostics Diagnostics is giving me Error 0146 Error Code 2000-0146 Cant remember what happened at end Of Pre boot system assesment....

I dont have anything to connect the hard drive to at all. I Tried a Recovery Disk by dell but it did nothing to help... If i remember rightly (i tried the disk at my brothers house and left the disk there) it went through some kind of disk check... to which it found nothing.... Then nothing else happened A Friend mentioned maybe Updating the Bios to be able to run the Reinstall through USB But i am not sure how to do this or whether it would help at all

hi, thanks for help. I tried F8... all i got was windows error recovery with option to Start windows normally or Launch startup repair. Start up repair leads straight to the Blue Screen with the STOP code C000021a {fatal system error} the session manager failed to create protected prefixed system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc000003a the system has been shut down there is nothing much on the laptop i would be worried about losing. there isnt much there apart from masses of itunes stuff which is backed up. its mainly used for gaming. thanks again emma

Hi all, am hoping someone can help me with this as it is driving me insane! I am trying to Fix my Brothers Dell laptop which last week Froze up... wouldnt do a thing at all... Had to take the battery out to restart it.... Blue Screen of Death saying some Sort of Fatal Error... Great!! So, been through all boot menus and Diagnostics it will allow me in to but nothing helps. It Starts to run the OS... then goes to blue screen again. Thought, OK. then... Will use The File in my Laptop from when i Downloaded Vista from microsoft last year... Hmmm... Dell laptop does not accept booting from USB... DVD's.. i dont have Any... only CD's and the File is just under 4GB so will not Fit. Is there anything anyone can Suggest to Try? Anything on the Net i could Download to try and Repair? Can i split an ISO into Multiple Disks? Please help Thanks Emma

yes it came out of another Drive... was Formatted before it was given to me

we didnt Buy it from a Shop... we bought it on the cheap from one of my Partners Friends... So not able to take it back... nor could i get another hard Drive of that size in IDE for that Price (typically smething always goes Pop when you have Just got back from holiday and have No cash till pay day) think the Driver may need to be looked into First... Cant see anyhing in the Bios i can change that will make a Difference.

when i go in to where it Shows me the Drives it states primary master Not deteted Primary slave not detected Secondary master DVD drive 2nd slave not detected. Just had A different screen pop up. I Booted PC back up with Windows disk in... went through the Blue Windows Screen... and then came Blue screen of death saying PC had been Shut Down to prevent damage :eek: I have Got to get this Working, no cash to Buy a new HD :(

ok... so i bit the bullet and Bought one.... Now.... its all powered up and plugged in...... and my Hard drive is not detected.... Help? What do i do now??? I cant see how it is Plugged in Wrong... it all looks fine... but not recognised drivers???

I Dont think we have a maplin near Us... i dont live too close to major Towns Or Cities... although i have had a look Online Would this Be what i am looking for DYNAMODE IDE-SATA-SI Bidirectional IDE Drive to SATA Converter at cheap prices | PC World Will It work Just as if it was an IDE? Just Reload my OS as normal? thankyou for any help

Hi guys, i am new here and dont know if i am posting in the right place but i am in need of help. Ok, So. my HD went Belly up on me a couple of days ago (looks like corrupt Software) Anyway... Other half went out and got me a new HD... Only to Find he Bought a Sata drive. my Motherboard is IDE. Was told by One Friend Just to Buy a new PCI card and then Use the Sata as normal. Went to Local PC parts Shop and they say, Nope. wont work that way... it wont load your OS on Boot up? I cant really Afford to go out and buy another hard Drive. Is there any way of making this PC work with the Sata Drive? Would appreciate any help thanks Emma