Installing a new hard drive

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red - May 29, 2008 at 02:40 AM
amy - Dec 4, 2009 at 01:50 AM

Hello,
I;m trying to install a new hard drive into a WinBookxl2 notebook. Ineed to know how to configure this hardware so that my notebook can work properly again.

Dell inspiron 510m hard drive
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smiley
Jun 6, 2008 at 01:51 PM

I just installed a new hard drive into a Dell Latitude laptop because the old one crashed. I didn't have to configure anything.... i took the old one out, slid the new one in, and then booted from a windows re-install CD. This allowed me to install windows xp again. I have had problems in the past with hard drives for desktop pc's, because there is a jumber that needs to be placed correctly to tell the pc if the drive is the master or the slave.

theLion
Oct 13, 2008 at 08:07 PM

Hi Smiley,

could you please let me know for which model you have installed hard drive, becoz i am having dell inspiron 510m model. i have put new drive (seagate one) but i am not able to boot from dvd rom. even i have got original OS cds with me and changed the boot order in BIOS but still it did not work for me. could you please help me in this case.... i think DELL configures some kind of passcodes inside the hard disk which are checked before booting...