hi all,
apparently hard drive in my laptop (dell inspiron 6000) was crashed. I bought a new one (western digital 120 gb). I need to install windows xp from a bootable cd. I don’t have the exact cd for dell inspiron with me, but I am trying to use a boot cd a dell desktop which I have. However, my cd drive is not working after installing the new hard drive (I think so…but it was working before crashing my old drive). Can anybody help me how I can bring back my laptop to normal??
The cd drive is recognizing in the BIOS ( I mean it is listed out in the BIOS). I tried to make it as first boot device. But the cd drive is not working at all…..
for few months there was something wrong with the hard drive (old one). It started showing blue screen. Last week the whole thing collapsed. it started showing a message that “internal HDD error”. One of my friend advised me to swap the hard drive with another dell inspiron 6000. I did that and mine was not working. So I thought of buying a new internal hard drive. I bought one from 4allmemory.com which is western digital 120 gb 5400rpm and based on their website it is compatible to dell inspiron 6000. I installed this in my laptop and tried to open my cd drive to run the operating system. I realized that my cd drive is no longer available. In the start up the cd drive is not blinking at all. My friend told me it may be due to bad connection. I tried this cd drive in another laptop and it was working. I am just wondering this may be due to a “power supply” problem. If yes how can I check it??
Any suggestions!!!
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