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Diskette Drive 0 seek failure for E521
Please can anyone help me - Am new to this, and my Dell is driving me batty! I receive the above message, have pressed F2 and gone into the set up system. I can only find that the diskette drives are 0 , 1, which are 160 gb memory. 2, and 3 are dvd burner and player. I have tried to disable the floppy. When I re-boot, it asks to choose safe mode, which I tried all options, it starts to boot, then Blue Screens with the message Unmountable boot volume - I am nearly bald! Can anyone please suggest something that doesnt involve turning my Dell into a plant holder! Many Many thanks.
PETER345
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September 1st, 2007 00:00
Are you sure about what you are saying? Is the failure the diskette (floppy) drive? Did you actually disable the floppy or the HD? Disabling the floppy should not affect the ability to boot (presuming you are trying to boot from the HD).
Do you have a floppy drive in your system?
Did you run the diagnostics? They will be a good place to start with problems like this.
Peter
PETER345
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September 1st, 2007 01:00
1. Floppy drive see failure
2. Unmountable boot volume error
If the floppy is disabled, I don't see why you would get the first. Did you get this error in Windows or at boot?
As for 2, I did a Google search and found many, including this:
From Microsoft.
You could also try reloading the defaults in the BIOS setup with:
Maintenance/Load Defaults: Restores system setup options to their factory defaults.
What did you download? When did it last work and what changed since then?
Peter
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September 1st, 2007 01:00
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PETER345
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September 1st, 2007 04:00
Did you run the HD diagnostics?
You could also try running some diagnostics (Windows level) from the recovery console (boot with the Windows XP disc).
Peter
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September 1st, 2007 16:00
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September 1st, 2007 16:00
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September 1st, 2007 18:00
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PETER345
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September 1st, 2007 19:00
If under warranty, provide Dell with the error code and they should deal with it right away. However, you will need to get your data off before they ship you a new HD.
Peter
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September 3rd, 2007 17:00
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