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by sthomas70

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Hello, I have a dell 5100 that my friend gave me with no HDD I noticed that it was configured for windows 2000 and NT. Well, I have windows 2000 cd trying to install on a new 40G HDD and it took 24 hrs to load. It is still not loading properly only in safe mode. Please tell me what I am doing wrong?

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by balge

hi
have you checked Device Manager ?
I would suspect motherboard drivers
Is the HD IDE or SATA - SATA drivers need loading during the install
Check Dell site for compatible drivers
cheers

by brian

Could be a bad SATA or IDE controller chip on the motherboard. I had this same problem with a sony laptop and desktop running windows XP, turned out that when i added a controller card into the desktop, the system loaded and ran with no problems or errors. with the laptop, there was not much that i could do for it. just a thought.

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