Latitude C600 boot problem

Question

I have a Latitude C600 with Bios Version A23. Whenever I turn on the power, the HDD powers on for about 2 seconds (I can hear it), then it tells me that there is no primary HDD and to use either F1 or F2 to boot.  I have some very important information on this laptop and would just like to get it working to pull the information. Thanks in advance.   Michael

coolboz · Answer

Try and check in BIOS to see if the Hard disk is detected in Bios by pressing F2,and if there is an error message that says 'Primary hdd 0  not found' it could be that youre hard disk has just crashed.

MichaelBPM · Answer

Sometimes it boots and sometimes it doesn't.  Makes me wonder if the board is cracked at the HDD connectors.

coolboz · Answer

Is the issue and intermittent issue?,have you tried with a known good hdd to see if the issue happens?

coolboz · Answer

ok, No problems,peace!!!!!

MichaelBPM · Answer

My other Dell is a Latt D610 and that HDD will not work with the C510, tried that.  And yes, the problem is intermitent.  Thanks for the help so far.

MichaelBPM · Answer

Thank you, will try that.

coolboz · Answer

Have you checked the bios too se  if it already detected,if no it's probably the hdd and if you do get a known good hdd to test and the hdd manages to detect in BIOS it is only the hard disk issue and if it is still intermittent it is definitely the mainboard issue.

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