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    Inspiron 1525 help

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by johnnyp26, Apr 25, 2013.

  1. johnnyp26

    johnnyp26 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I am trying to fix an Inspiron 1525 for a family member. It was popping up with a messages saying that the hard drive was bad. I replaced the hard drive and installed a fresh copy of Windows, however every time the computer reboots the computer says there is no bootable drive available. However if I turn the computer on and hit F10 or F12, and select the hard drive from the list of boot options, it works fine. Any ideas why this is happening? I checked the boot order in BIOS and it's set to go to the hard drive as 1st priority. I've swapped quite a few hard drives in laptops but have never run into this. Any help would be appreciated. If you need any other info to help let me know. Thanks!


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    johnnyp26, Apr 25, 2013
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  2. ktriebol

    ktriebol Notebook Geek

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    Go into Disk Management and have a look at the drive. Does everything look normal there? It should say "Healthy (System, Boot, Page File, Active, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)".

    Is there only one partition on that drive?
     
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  3. johnnyp26

    johnnyp26 Notebook Enthusiast

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    It says it's healthy and everything looks good. I only have the 1 partition on the drive.
     
    johnnyp26, Apr 25, 2013
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  4. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    You should check it with HDTune or at least read the SMART data somehow. I don't think partition manager actually says anything about the physical health of the drive.

    You could also just try to reinstall the OS.
     
    Commander Wolf, Apr 25, 2013
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    StormJumper Notebook Virtuoso

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    How old is the HDD or new? And is the CMOS battery still working cause what your describing sounds like the CMOS isn't saving the setting for the boot. And when was the last time you replaced the CMOS battery?
     
    StormJumper, Apr 27, 2013
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