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June 30, 2009 at 05:11 PM
sean f.

New PATA HDD Not detected by Windows CD

by sean f. . Updated 17 years ago

Dear community,

I’ve bought a new 250 Gb WD (WD2500BEVE) hard drive for my Dell Inspiron 8600. In the BIOS it is detected as a 137 Gb hard drive, but when I use Windows start up CD, it does not let me install the OS on it. No error messages appear; only a black screen is shown!
(It seems like the computer freezes as soon as it checks hard drive configurations). My Bios ver. is 14.

Cheers
Hamid

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