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June 18th, 2007 11:00

Cannot Install an OS on my Inspiron 6000, Please help!

​ Hello, ​
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​ I recently had to get myself a new (recon) motherboard for my Laptop as my old one went faulty, as i already had windows XP installed on my HDD soon as the motherboard was fitted it all worked fine, anyway i wanted to install a fresh new copy of my OS and get rid of my old one as it was full of junk i didnt want, but after i deleted the partition and formatted a new one i then tried to install the new install of XP using the Dell Windows XP OS disk, but it kept crashing and bluescreen everytime i tried. ​
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​ I then decided to try installing my new copy of Vista, and again it kept crashing or not installing correctly and sayin corrupt files etcetc. ​
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​ I have now put in a New HDD (100GB WD Scorpio), New Memory 1GB, even a new DVD player, but still it wont let me install an OS, it just keeps either bluescreening or crashing out saying corrupt or missing files cannot complete the install. ​
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​ I have tried the Vista Disc on my pc and it worked first time, but just the laptop wont have it!! i have even tried using Norton Ghost to ghost an image of the OS on to it, but that wont let me boot after that because the system is too different! ​
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​ Has anyone any ideas why this is doing this? and why cant i install an OS? ​
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​ My system Spec... ​
​ Bios = A09 ​
​ 100GB WD Scorpio HDD ​
​ 1GB PC5300 667MHZ DDR2 Memory (even the 512MB that came with the system does the same) ​
​ Original DVD rom or My New DVD_RW ​
​ 64MB DDR ATI MOBILITY RADEON X300 ​
​ (Reconditioned) F6402 Motherboard ​
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​ I hope someone can help me, i dont want this cool laptop to turn into a doorstop! ​
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​ I look forward to any responce, ​
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​ Steve. ​

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June 18th, 2007 16:00

It sounds like your recon motherboard was a Decon instead

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June 29th, 2007 14:00

IF YOU HAVE A SATA HDD YOU WILL FIRST NEED TO INSTALL THE DRIVERS(FLOPPY DISK REQUIRED) BY PRESSING F6 DURING XP SETUP.IT WILL WORK WITHOUT THE DRIVERS BUT ONLY IF YOU HAVE A WINDOWS XP CD WITH SP2 BUILT IN.HAD THE SAME PROBLEM WITH AN ACER AND SOLVED IT LIKE I TOLD YOU----INSTALLED FROM XP PRO SP2 CD.KEEP ME POSTED.SORRY ABOUT THE CAPS.....STUCK CAPS LOCK

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June 29th, 2007 20:00

That model uses a PATA EIDE HDD, not a SATA.
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