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November 4, 2007 at 05:53 AM
lrm1980

Dell Dimension XPS 4550 not detecting Primary IDE drive

by lrm1980 . Updated 18 years, 8 months ago

Hi, I just got this Dell XPS 4550 pc, the only problem with it, it has no HD. I took the working HD off my old pc and tried to see if it would boot up on the dell. I put it in power it up and gives me an error message saying no primary device 1. I reboot the pc hit F12 and go to the IDE test and it shows my HD by name. Then I reboot again in hopes of it going thru and it gives me the same error. Is there anything i can do to be able to use my old HD even reformating? Or do i just have to go out and buy a new HDD?

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