I_am_Cadaver

i have a dell demension 2400 and the harddrive is shot. i have an old HD that was bought and i had put it into an old computer and coppied all the files to it. (including windows). when i try to put that HD into this dell it says "primary drive 0 not found" and "primary drive 1 not found." and it will not load windows or anything. so can anyone help me? i want to replace a western digital 40 GB HD(original dell HD) with a Seagate 80GB(copied windows,files,etc.from an old computer.)

please any help at all will be greatly appreciated

jp198780

you cant copy files and the OS from a computer, than put it in a different computer, it wont work...

if thats what your asking...

also, if ur asking that, that may be against the rules 2 talk bout it here..

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agapetos

first make sure that you can find it in your BIOS. Then make sure it is set active and that your boot record is working. You can put in your windows cd(is it xp?)and choose repair and use the fixmbr. things like that......

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agapetos

oh!....it was from a different pc?......usually wont work, but I have been lucky sometimes.....

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Memory: Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400 2GB Kit DDR2-800 XMS2-6400 Xtreme Performance
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor 4600+ Socket AM2 (89W)
PSU: Thermaltake W0117RU Toughpower 750W
Main HDD: Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500KS 250GB Serial ATA II 7200RPM Hard Drive w/16MB Buffer
Graphics: MSI NX7950GX2-T2D1GE GeForce 7950 GX2 PCI Express 1GB
CPU cooler is Zalman CNPS9500 AM2 CPU Cooler
19" LCD Viewsonic VX924 4ms extreme gaming

Cromewell

Do you have the drive conencted properly? Try disconnecting and reconnecting it.

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I_am_Cadaver

soo what should i do??

I_am_Cadaver

yes its XP

but looks like i cant do anything.. but thank you all for the help =]

agapetos

check your bios.....can u see the drive in there?
are your jumpers set right?
do you only have 1 drive in?
does the drive work in other pc?
is it active?
boot to a win98 boot disk and check what it says in fdisk....

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Memory: Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400 2GB Kit DDR2-800 XMS2-6400 Xtreme Performance
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor 4600+ Socket AM2 (89W)
PSU: Thermaltake W0117RU Toughpower 750W
Main HDD: Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500KS 250GB Serial ATA II 7200RPM Hard Drive w/16MB Buffer
Graphics: MSI NX7950GX2-T2D1GE GeForce 7950 GX2 PCI Express 1GB
CPU cooler is Zalman CNPS9500 AM2 CPU Cooler
19" LCD Viewsonic VX924 4ms extreme gaming

Cromewell

I think you were right earlier and it's a screwed MBR

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