I searched the subject "Hard drive not found" on the Dell forums and have found that many have had the same problem, but there doesn't seem to be a definite fix. I'm thinking maybe my pc is done. (I'm not mad at Dell like many of the posts I read though; maybe it was a virus or something. I am just happy that Dell has this forum--unlike IBM--who spinelessly killed their forum boards because of accusatory posts. Breakage happens with the best of them)
I'm curious as well. I have a virus that just won't seem to go away on my new XPS Gen 3 but I get the same error when I try to do reinstall of XP with my recovery CD.
I have no problems booting normally nor do I have any problems accessing and saving to my hard drive while in use but I cannot seem to do a repair or reinstall of Windows as I get that error message.
joepc123
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ejn63
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August 24th, 2004 20:00
Jumper should be set to cable select.
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August 25th, 2004 00:00
If the system BIOS doesn't see the drive, and you've changed the cable, check it - is it spinning?
It sounds like the probability is that the drive has failed.
joepc123
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August 25th, 2004 12:00
joepc123
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August 25th, 2004 20:00
I searched the subject "Hard drive not found" on the Dell forums and have found that many have had the same problem, but there doesn't seem to be a definite fix. I'm thinking maybe my pc is done. (I'm not mad at Dell like many of the posts I read though; maybe it was a virus or something. I am just happy that Dell has this forum--unlike IBM--who spinelessly killed their forum boards because of accusatory posts. Breakage happens with the best of them)
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August 26th, 2004 12:00
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August 26th, 2004 13:00
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August 26th, 2004 23:00
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August 28th, 2004 12:00
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