Hello all,

I have an Inspiron E1505 that is out of warranty.

The hard drive began making "death" noises, so I purchased a new drive.

The computer originally came with a 120GB drive, but I ordered an 80GB drive to replace it.

Both drives are the same make.

I installed Acronis True Image and imaged the old drive to my 500GB external drive.

I removed the old hard drive and installed the new drive. The drive is detected fine in the BIOS.

I booted from the Acronis boot CD and restored the image (all partitions) to the new drive.

Now, however, when trying to start from the new drive, the system shows the Dell logo over and over, as if it can't find anything to start from.

The system boots from the Acronis CD just fine.

I've tried changing the boot order and even manually selecting the hard drive from the F12 boot menu.

What can I do?

I need this computer to work...

Thanks,

Carl