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Hi, I have an Alienware Aurora desktop, I decided to do a system restore and all went well. Today when I turned it on it booted to 'Pre-Boot System Assessment' and wont boot into windows at all! I let the assessment run and got an error with a hard drive, so I removed all my hard drives and (luckily) I have a new one so placed it in and when into bios and set to boot from DVD, made sure the hard drive was recognized and placed the windows dvd in the drive, it still boots straight into Pre-Boot System Assessment and finished with no errors, it wont do anything but run the damn assessment! I have looked on the net for hours but all I can find is people saying replace the hard drive! Any help would be much appreciated Thanks in advance

shesagordie · Answer

wikki09 The better forum to post this in, is the Alienware Owners Club HERE. Bev.

Tesla1856 · Answer

What exact model Aurora?

If the original drives were RAIDed, you might have to check that in RAID BIOS.

If not RAIDed, check boot order in BIOS. Also, make sure OS partition is Active/Start-able/ Default Boot.

On any ... check SATA cables (on both ends).

wikki09 · Answer

Hi, thanks for the reply.

I'm not sure of the model, I know is was manufactured in 2009, the one before the top vents were added.

The original hard drives were not configured in RAID.

I have tried to set the boot order in both hdd and dvd with the same results.

I have also removed the sata cables and replaced, all the hdd's are seen in the bios.

It's really strange as when I reinstalled windows it worked perfect, even updated rebooted etc...

It was only the next day when I tried to power up I got this problem.

I have also tried reseating the ram chips, cpu, graphics cards and unplugging all unessential USB components.

I'm now lost what to try next!

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