Please help!!

Mykingdomforanu · 01-07-2008, 07:17 AM

Hello there, I was wondering if you could help me. I have a Dell Inspiron 6000 Laptop. Over the Christmas period someone stood on the open keyboard, just above where the hard drive is. The Laptop of course refused to work and the hard drive doesn't spin at all.

My IT manager at work had a look at it and swapped the hard drive with another one, which seemed to spin up ok. He then declared that there was a problme with the hard drive. Of course this meant that I had to do two things - first to get my old hard drive seen to see if I could recovery the data and secondly to get a new hard drive.

I have taken the hard driveto a data recovery specilist to have a look at it and then bought a 120 gig hard drive from Maplins to install, which I did myself, just as I was shown. I turned the laptoip on and there was a bleep with the words "Cannot find Boot".

& that is that really - my old hard drive was 80 gig, is 120 gig too much for the 6000? Is there something else wrong with the laptop? If there is something wrong with the laptop, does this mean that my old hard drive may have been ok?

**BCCOMP** · 01-07-2008, 09:05 AM

Hi,
I can not say the laptop is damaged, but the "Cannot find Boot" may be due to not installing the OS on the new harddrive. Did you install an OS yet? Are you able to get in the BIOS and see if it sees the new Harddrive? Is the Keyboard functional? If this is a Dell did you receive any disk with this machine (Drivers disk, Restore CD)
Thanks,
Bill

01-07-2008, 07:17 AM	#1 (permalink)
Mykingdomforanu Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 1 OS: xp	Please help!! Hello there, I was wondering if you could help me. I have a Dell Inspiron 6000 Laptop. Over the Christmas period someone stood on the open keyboard, just above where the hard drive is. The Laptop of course refused to work and the hard drive doesn't spin at all. My IT manager at work had a look at it and swapped the hard drive with another one, which seemed to spin up ok. He then declared that there was a problme with the hard drive. Of course this meant that I had to do two things - first to get my old hard drive seen to see if I could recovery the data and secondly to get a new hard drive. I have taken the hard driveto a data recovery specilist to have a look at it and then bought a 120 gig hard drive from Maplins to install, which I did myself, just as I was shown. I turned the laptoip on and there was a bleep with the words "Cannot find Boot". & that is that really - my old hard drive was 80 gig, is 120 gig too much for the 6000? Is there something else wrong with the laptop? If there is something wrong with the laptop, does this mean that my old hard drive may have been ok?

01-07-2008, 09:05 AM	#2 (permalink)
BCCOMP Mod Hardware Team Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: New York Posts: 7,022 OS: Win XP SP3 / Windows 7 Beta / Open Suse My System	Re: Please help!! Hi, I can not say the laptop is damaged, but the "Cannot find Boot" may be due to not installing the OS on the new harddrive. Did you install an OS yet? Are you able to get in the BIOS and see if it sees the new Harddrive? Is the Keyboard functional? If this is a Dell did you receive any disk with this machine (Drivers disk, Restore CD) Thanks, Bill __________________ PC Wizard \| Everest \| Power supply info \| Memtest86+ PC Running Slow Speedfan