I am working on an Optiplex GX620 tower form that will be used for office work at our church. The HDD was pulled from a different computer that quit working. It's a Maxtor 80GB SATA drive with Windows XP installed on it. When I turn on the computer this is the message that appears:
When I try to boot up XP in any of the methods listed it shows the load screen for a few seconds. After that it briefly flashes a blue screen with error messages. It reboots showing the Dell startup screen and the goes back to the screen pictured.
Could it be that the HDD itself is corrupted in some manner? Everything else as far as hardware is in proper working order.
cpugeek80
As the hard drive was from a different computer, the differences between the Optiplex GX620 and the hard drive donor system [unless it's another GX620], are too great and you will probably need to perform a clean reinstall of XP, followed by loading the OptiPlex GX620 drivers.
Yes the drive is probably bad. Are you sure the failed drive is not the cause of the other computer's failure? An 80gb hard drive is very old.
Note that it is a bad idea to use windows XP in an office setting. Microsoft has stopped supporting Windows XP and will not issue any security updates and you will be open to security hacks. The only safe way to use XP is never use the Internet.
I am working on an Optiplex GX620 tower form that will be used for office work at our church. The HDD was pulled from a different computer that quit working. It's a Maxtor 80GB SATA drive with Windows XP installed on it. When I turn on the computer this is the message that appears:
When I try to boot up XP in any of the methods listed it shows the load screen for a few seconds. After that it briefly flashes a blue screen with error messages. It reboots showing the Dell startup screen and the goes back to the screen pictured.
Could it be that the HDD itself is corrupted in some manner? Everything else as far as hardware is in proper working order.
cpugeek80
As the hard drive was from a different computer, the differences between the Optiplex GX620 and the hard drive donor system [unless it's another GX620], are too great and you will probably need to perform a clean reinstall of XP, followed by loading the OptiPlex GX620 drivers.
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I talked with the person that gave me the computer to work on and the hard drive did come from a different computer. I will install a Linux OS to the hard drive after taking the appropriate steps.
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Yes the drive is probably bad. Are you sure the failed drive is not the cause of the other computer's failure? An 80gb hard drive is very old.
Note that it is a bad idea to use windows XP in an office setting. Microsoft has stopped supporting Windows XP and will not issue any security updates and you will be open to security hacks. The only safe way to use XP is never use the Internet.
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I talked with the person that gave me the computer to work on and the hard drive did come from a different computer. I will install a Linux OS to the hard drive after taking the appropriate steps.
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Thankfully most of the Linux OS's I've tested have the necessary Dell drivers preloaded or are downloaded during the installation process.