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**simpswr** · 12-10-2008, 03:22 PM

and welcome to the Forum

When you say laptop does not recognize the hard drive, does BIOS recognize it ??

The drive may have failed . . do you have the Dell diagnostic cd that came with the pc? You can run that to test the drive. If you do not have it, you can download diagnostics from the Dell support site.

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simpswr Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: May 2007 Location: Houston, Texas Posts: 12,205 OS: XP, Vista, Win 7	Re: Inspiron 1521 hard drive and welcome to the Forum When you say laptop does not recognize the hard drive, does BIOS recognize it ?? The drive may have failed . . do you have the Dell diagnostic cd that came with the pc? You can run that to test the drive. If you do not have it, you can download diagnostics from the Dell support site. __________________ Rich MemTest86 \| BenchTest \| Virus/Trojan/Spyware Help How to post a Screen Shot \| PC running slow?