Hey everyone, I havent posted here in a while so I'll just say hi, and begin with my problem. Hopefully someone like clocker will come around and post a reply to this thread! Here is the problem.
One day my computer would not boot past the bios load screen, I thought the hard-drive might have died, but when I checked the SATA port in the BIOS, it was recognizing the capacity and serial number of the drive and everything. So I figured I might have to re-format or repair the windows installation. I booted up the XP cd, but uh oh, Windows cannot detect any installed hard drives! Agh! What the hell? So after multiple reboots, and some tinkering with the SATA settings, windows finally booted up and has been workin for the past few weeks until a day or so ago....
The same thing happened, the BIOS load screen would come up, but then instead of a Windows boot screen, the screen just remains black. I then repeated the same things I did before, except no boot, ever. It is a dell, and has insurance on it until 2008, so I called them, and after an hour or so of useless tech help, they decided to send me a new hdd for free because of the insurance. My current hd is 160 GB, but today the new HD came and it is 250 GB!! That is one nice accident! Anywho, today I tried installing the hdd, but get the same damn problems that I had with the other HDD. The Bios recognies the 250 GB drive, but the windows install disk wont! I tried all the SATA ports, and they all work, BIOS recognizes it in all ports, but not windows!! CAn anyone telll me what is going on? I can provide pictures if need-be, please! I need help!!
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