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Internal hard drive not found
I cannot boot up at all. The screen comes up "internal hard disk drive not found" and "internal HDD hard error" I am out of warranty now. I tried the "fn" key with start up for a diagnostic test. It passed except the "Dst short test Fail" In the bios under the Device Info the primary hard drive says "none" I should of said early this is a inspirion 6000 with a 40gb hard drive. The error code under the dst short test was "1000-0141" with one beep followed by 4 beeps then one beep again and finished with three rapid beeps twice.
I followed a dell procedure by removing the optical drive and battery. Reseating the hard drive. Plugging in the power cord only and rebooted without success. I will try this again later. Still not sure if its hard drive, optical drive or motherboard. Anyone have any suggestions.
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lasvegas89103
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September 24th, 2008 15:00
I am at a library after my warranty with dell ended Iforgot to replace
it and I am in the WindowsXP section dont have the disk at all but do
have 900 computers to copy a cd from Im trying it. I did try to book a
disk in CDdvd rom drive and it started booting the CD until it asked me
for my login and I typed my name then enter and then the password I
had no password for the disk I was trying to boot a software program
The library has 900 computers I forget how but I need an MSdos disk
My computer is dead does nothing but diagnostics it will do this.
I got a WindowsMe95 cd from the library and tried to boot with this
it would not work I have WindowsXP Home edition with a dell inspiron
1200 may have been recalled with the battery. The libary don't have
the WindowsXP disk however just the book it is not instructional at all
about errors.
lasvegas89103
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September 24th, 2008 16:00
Yes....and you have to take the computer to a technician locally
and have them remove the hard drive from your computer and
connect it to a working system and back up or copy the data
you have left It happened to me twice. I called a local technician
wanted $35.00 per hour to do this. Then......you can re-install
the hard drive into your computer and re-install it like brand new
the operating system and all that. The technician will have a
copy of your stuff on a disk to copy back onto your hard drive
but you must run diagnostics to verify that your hard drive is
any good first.
lasvegas89103
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September 24th, 2008 16:00
Yes....and you have to take the computer to a technician locally
and have them remove the hard drive from your computer and
connect it to a working system and back up or copy the data
you have left It happened to me twice. I called a local technician
wanted $35.00 per hour to do this. Then......you can re-install
the hard drive into your computer and re-install it like brand new
the operating system and all that. The technician will have a
copy of your stuff on a disk to copy back onto your hard drive
but you must run diagnostics to verify that your hard drive is
any good first. I had a full warranty for 3 years on my Dell 1200
at the time and did contact Dell with it under warranty and was
told that I had to do this and to call them when I had the my drive
copied to re-install the system.