[SOLVED] Dell XPS M1730 error msg, no bootable drives detected

Crypta · 10-14-2009, 07:38 PM

Hi, as stated, I have said computer and when I booted up I got this black screen with grey sentence at top telling me said error. it gave me options to retry boot, enter diagnostics and something else... i went to diagnostics and it did its thing for about 10 secs and then it gave a similar msg telling me no bootable drives. Well my computer has had the motherboard replaced by dell about 6 months ago due to some kind of battery error.... anyway its a refurb MB. Is my HDD toast or could it be the MB? I play WOW almost every evening and havent had a problem .... that is what I was doing the night before and had no issues at all with it but the next day when I went to cold boot I got this error..... Ive tried reseating the HDD 4 times and still nothing. Unfortunatly my Dell waranty is expired and they want $49 just to talk to me about it. What would cause my HDD to suddenly just not work after it worked fine the night b4? Any help here is greatly appreciated....

one more question.... I'm on my old Dell Ispiron E1505 as I type.... what would happen if I took out the HDD on this laptop and replaced the one from my XPS to see if I get the same msg? I'm not about to even do that but was just curious if that would work or end in tragedy! lol

Thanks gang!

Crypta

Crypta · 10-14-2009, 07:39 PM

Oh btw the HDD is a Seagate Momentus 7200.2 200 GB if that helps.

**raptor_pa** · 10-14-2009, 08:24 PM

First thging to do is download the seatools diagnostic bootable cd from Seagate support, burn it to a disk, boot to it and run diagnostics on the disk. The Momentus family has some issues with failures with no warning...

Crypta · 10-14-2009, 11:17 PM

Thank you sir I will try that promptly and post my results tomorrow!

Crypta · 10-15-2009, 04:38 PM

I dl the seat tools thing and tried your solution but couldnt get it to work. so I took my hard drive and put itnto my wifes XPS and it appears that the drive is the problem. it does the exact same thing as it did in my machine ... but thatnk you very much for the reply and offer to help!!!

10-14-2009, 07:38 PM	#1 (permalink)
Crypta Registered User Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: NW Florida Posts: 4 OS: Vista Ultimate SP 2 I think	[SOLVED] Dell XPS M1730 error msg, no bootable drives detected Hi, as stated, I have said computer and when I booted up I got this black screen with grey sentence at top telling me said error. it gave me options to retry boot, enter diagnostics and something else... i went to diagnostics and it did its thing for about 10 secs and then it gave a similar msg telling me no bootable drives. Well my computer has had the motherboard replaced by dell about 6 months ago due to some kind of battery error.... anyway its a refurb MB. Is my HDD toast or could it be the MB? I play WOW almost every evening and havent had a problem .... that is what I was doing the night before and had no issues at all with it but the next day when I went to cold boot I got this error..... Ive tried reseating the HDD 4 times and still nothing. Unfortunatly my Dell waranty is expired and they want $49 just to talk to me about it. What would cause my HDD to suddenly just not work after it worked fine the night b4? Any help here is greatly appreciated.... one more question.... I'm on my old Dell Ispiron E1505 as I type.... what would happen if I took out the HDD on this laptop and replaced the one from my XPS to see if I get the same msg? I'm not about to even do that but was just curious if that would work or end in tragedy! lol Thanks gang! Crypta

10-14-2009, 07:39 PM	#2 (permalink)
Crypta Registered User Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: NW Florida Posts: 4 OS: Vista Ultimate SP 2 I think	Re: Dell XPS M1730 error msg, no bootable drives detected Oh btw the HDD is a Seagate Momentus 7200.2 200 GB if that helps.

10-14-2009, 08:24 PM	#3 (permalink)
raptor_pa Mod Hardware Team Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Central PA Posts: 4,761 OS: XP	Re: Dell XPS M1730 error msg, no bootable drives detected First thging to do is download the seatools diagnostic bootable cd from Seagate support, burn it to a disk, boot to it and run diagnostics on the disk. The Momentus family has some issues with failures with no warning... __________________

10-14-2009, 11:17 PM	#4 (permalink)
Crypta Registered User Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: NW Florida Posts: 4 OS: Vista Ultimate SP 2 I think	Re: Dell XPS M1730 error msg, no bootable drives detected Thank you sir I will try that promptly and post my results tomorrow!

10-15-2009, 04:38 PM	#5 (permalink)
Crypta Registered User Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: NW Florida Posts: 4 OS: Vista Ultimate SP 2 I think	Re: Dell XPS M1730 error msg, no bootable drives detected I dl the seat tools thing and tried your solution but couldnt get it to work. so I took my hard drive and put itnto my wifes XPS and it appears that the drive is the problem. it does the exact same thing as it did in my machine ... but thatnk you very much for the reply and offer to help!!!