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Dell Inspiron 2650 boot problem

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by emaskati 2 views

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I've recently had trouble booting my dell inspiron 2650, under Windows XP. Occasioanlly the laptop will boot normally, while other times it is unable to boot; giving the error "os not found". The boot manager is shown attemting to load an operating system, but finally display's that simple error message. After a random number (sometimes many) of re-boots the system will finally load windows xp normally, as if there was no problems (even resumes from standby or hybernation mode). The HD indicator light always blinks at startup.

I formatted the entire harddisk and re installed windows xp, however this has not fixed the peoblem as it still takes many re-boots before the laptop loads the os. Is this just a sign of a failing hard disk? Any ideas as to what the problem could be are welcome? Many thanks in advance.

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by oh smeg

Is going faulty and needs attention. If it's just the HDD this is an easy and cheap repair but if it's the M'Board that's a different story.

Backup your Data now and if the unit is still UG return it for Repair. If it is no longer UG you'll have to decide if it's worth the cost of repair or if you want to buy a new unit to do your work. Either way no matter what you'll need to remove the HDD and fit it to a USB Caddy so you can recover your data to the new NB or use your backup to do the same thing.

As this is currently happening it will only be a matter of time before the unit totally fails so you need to take steps now to prevent the loss of Data.

Col

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