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    Help! Windows XP won't boot at all! (Inspiron 6400)

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by AlfabetSoop, Sep 7, 2007.

  1. AlfabetSoop

    AlfabetSoop Newbie

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    I have an Inspiron 6400, and I've had it since October.

    A couple days ago, it was sitting on my bed, and when I moved, the laptop slid off my bed and fell about two feet and landed on the right side. I picked it up, scared that I'd broken it. However, it didn't seem affected...at first. I closed my laptop and went about my business for the day, and when I came home a couple hours later, I opened it up, and the screen never came back on.

    I turned it off and turned it on, and it was fine. It was working up until last night. I closed it and went to bed. When I opened it back up about an hour ago, it didn't come back on. Then, when I turned it on, I got the Windows loading screen, and it suddenly came to a halt and gave me a blue screen with this error:

    http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;297185

    I can't even boot in Safe mode.

    Right now, I'm running through Diagnostics, and it's given me this message so far:

    error code : 0142
    msg : error code 2000-0142
    msg : unit 0 : drive self test failed. Status byte = 79.

    The diagnostics are still running. I've done a little reading, and I don't have a disk to boot to.
     
    AlfabetSoop, Sep 7, 2007
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  2. AlfabetSoop

    AlfabetSoop Newbie

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    No responses at all? Really?
     
    AlfabetSoop, Sep 7, 2007
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  3. Teriyaki

    Teriyaki Notebook Consultant

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    Your hard drive probably suffered from the fall. A few crucial sectors containing windows files probably got damaged, therefore causing you to lose your windows function.
     
    Teriyaki, Sep 7, 2007
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  4. Matt is Pro

    Matt is Pro I'm a PC, so?

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    Wow Ross, that sucks balls.

    You may need to get a new harddrive unless you can find some way to run the disk repair.
     
    Matt is Pro, Sep 7, 2007
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    Simular situation here with a Dell Inspiron 1521 AMD64 Athalon x2 - Windows Vista Home Premium - Also Bumped on the Strike Zone which would give me a blue screen of death

    Attemped to Repair Using all OEM disks and utilities, to no avail i would receive:

    Windows cannot install reg files file does not exisit error code 0x80070003

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/910336

    Attemped to Re-install clean copy formatted partitions
    got to about about 84% when all of a sudden i hear the disk stop spinning and crackling scratchy noises with an occasion beep comming from the strike zone (hard drive) area.

    Now BOOTMGR is missing and im promopted to boot from disk
    I ran a Pre-Boot System Assessment Build 4106
    which gave me this error code and instructed me to contact Dell Support

    Error 0142 MSG Error 2000 Unit 1: Drive Self Test Failed Status Byte = 70

    Sounds like a Hard Disk Problem will take in for repairs and follow up
     
    Arcamaye, Apr 11, 2008
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