My Dell Inspiron 1525 has started beeping when i start it up and no longer detects my internal hard drive. The beeping is in sets of 3, with two low beeps and one high beep.
I was running windows 7 on my computer
Does anyone have any idea of what's going on?
it starts up as normal, but after the dell screen it just says
'internal'
'No bootable devices--strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility, Press F5 to run onboard diagnostics.'
i tried booting through a windows xp cd, so that I could run recovery console and possibly format the hard drive, but it doesn't detect the hard drive at all.
I opened up the computer and unplugged the hard drive and plugged it back in. no effect.
The whole thing started when i was on firefox, then it just froze suddenly with no warning. I then rebooted the computer and now I'm here.
I wouldn't say that the beeps are in bursts but it's like 3 beeps in a little more than a second. 2 low and then 1 high.
ok, i removed the memory modules and plugged them back in.
I also ran the onboard diagnostics.
half way through the test I got an error message.
Error Code 0141
Msg: Error Code 2000-0141
Msg: Hard Drive - No drive detected
everything else looks fine.
I'm wondering if I just get a new hard drive, would that fix the problem?
and would there be a way to extract the files off of my old hard drive?
its your harddrive try getting another hard drive and plugging that one in and ur best option would be to install windows 7 on a new hard drive log on to an account and try to access ur old hard drive how old is the pc? and post the specs
As far as saving the info on the "old" drive (if it can be) you have a couple of choices.
To save some money get the new drive and load the OS yourself
Then you can take the laptop with the new drive installed and loaded with an OS (win7) to a computer shop. See if they can slave the "old" drive and get the info off it (no gaurantee).
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