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February 4th, 2004 09:00
"cannot find boot disk 0"
Or something of that sort is the problem. I have an Inspiron 5100 with 30gb of hd. My understanding is that it cannot boot from the hd.
i left the computer overnight to render something, with the latch closed. I have suspend, sleep, and hd off all on never, so the computer just kept on chugging. It's not the first night it's done it. Anyway, when I woke up this morning and went to check it, the screen was black. I moved the mouse, nada. I hard-booted it, and when it restarted it told me that it cannot find hard disk 0. 0 as in... well, it's probably the whole 0/1 thing.
My understanding of it is that the boot sequence failed to find the hd. duh. What can I do? I've been thinking of feeding it the winXP disk and trying to see if it finds it that way, as in by installing windows again. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers!
My understanding of it is that the boot sequence failed to find the hd. duh. What can I do? I've been thinking of feeding it the winXP disk and trying to see if it finds it that way, as in by installing windows again. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers!
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Infinite_Trial
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February 4th, 2004 13:00
mihnead
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February 4th, 2004 14:00
johnallg
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February 4th, 2004 23:00
poohboy
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February 5th, 2004 23:00
Seems to be a common problem on Inspirons, possibly Lat's as well. Issue revolves around improper cooling of the HD bay - basically, there is none, and those little drives generate some serious heat. Just got done replacing my third drive in an Inspiron 600m, and that one failed after I left it churning overnight. I pulled it out, and let it cool, and it seems to have recovered OK, but I'm not thrilled with the engineering here...
Anyone else had recurring HD problems on their laptops?
ExtremelyNormal
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February 6th, 2004 10:00
> Anyone else had recurring HD problems on their laptops?
Just this morning!
Copied some files over the network to my 8600 (Hitachi Travelstar 60 gigs 4200RPM). OK there were some more files (about 8 GB). At 95 percent the disk started to make clicking sounds and didn't stop again...
New disk's now on it's way.
That's even more annoying when thinking of that I just had this system the way I want it to (had problems with hibernate and standby too, so I had to re-install it from the scratch) so I spent the last two nights for nothing... And I didn't have the time to backup it.
Now I'm looking forward, what's the next thing to happen (place your bets now)
I'll keep you informed.
So long,
Marco