Installing/Replacing Laptop Hard Drive

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dtham

Have had Dell Inspiron 600 laptop for three years and my hard drive
failed. Won't even boot up. Get the message "Primary Hard Disk Drive
not Found. Have a new WD 80gb hard drive to replace it. So how dow i
get the computer to recognize the new har drive? Laptop will not boot
up? I have gone to WD's website and downloaded drivers and burned them
to a cd. Now what? Thanks.
 
K

Kerry Brown

dtham said:
Have had Dell Inspiron 600 laptop for three years and my hard drive
failed. Won't even boot up. Get the message "Primary Hard Disk Drive
not Found. Have a new WD 80gb hard drive to replace it. So how dow i
get the computer to recognize the new har drive? Laptop will not boot
up? I have gone to WD's website and downloaded drivers and burned them
to a cd. Now what? Thanks.
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Insert your Dell recovery CD/DVD in the drive. Boot from it and restore the
computer to the factory setup.
 

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