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September 5th, 2008 22:00
inspiron E1505 problem
The hard drive had errors and wouldn't boot so I reformated the drive and when it boots it says No bootable devices--strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility press, F5to run onboard diagnostics... so I pressed F5 and when it gets to Start DST Test says fail ERROR code 1000-0146 Msg Unit 0: IDE status failed. Status byte = 64 ControlCode = 1 Msg = No additional sense information.............. any help would be wonderful thanks for your time
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ejn63
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September 9th, 2008 12:00
Replace the hard drive, and then load Windows. Your drive has failed.
You need: any 2.5" 9.5 mm serial ATA notebook drive.
romiostarrr
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September 10th, 2008 10:00
Reistalling the operating system might work, but at this point of time it seems the hard drive on your laptop is failing.
Try reinstalling the operating system.
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thevolcano
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September 11th, 2008 01:00
if you get a new hard drive i would get western digital. i upgraded my e1505 hard drive from a 80gb 7200 rpm hatachi to a western digital 320gb 7200 rpm (i think it has the fall sensor thing as well) my bluetooth seems to work fine now eveything thing seems to run better then my old one. i got mine new sealed on ebay for like $167
http://cgi.ebay.com/WESTERN-DIGITAL-2-5-SATA-320GB-7200RPM-HARD-DRIVE-NEW_W0QQitemZ300255472636QQihZ020QQcategoryZ158854QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
dell hard drives seem to lack quality and are not very good. you could back up your files and try formating the hard drive and reinstalling.