My dell xps 200 crashed. i copied all my info and formatted the harddrive.
I have a windows XP home edition service pack 1 operating system disk.
at start up i press F8 and go through all the process of putting the operating
system back on my computer which takes like 30 minutes for it to set.
than a blue screen puts up the readsto set up windows Xp on the selected item, press enter
to create a partition in the unpartition space, press C
to delete the selected partition, press D
when i press any of the above it saysThere is no disk in this Drive.
What can i do so it can read the disk. I thought it already read the disk since it
took me through the process on installing the operating system.
What utility did you use to format the drive? Usually that's done as part of the installation--the option screen you got: to set up windows Xp on the selected item, press enter
to create a partition in the unpartition space, press C
to delete the selected partition, press DYou'd delete the partition and then recreate it and do the install. But I guess you didn't do it that way or you wouldn't be wondering about the option screen and wouldn't have gotten the 'no disk' message.
Is it a SATA drive? If so you need to install those driver prior to doing the install.
If it's a regular IDE drive, does it show in cmos/bios setup?
Here's an odd solution. The fellow swapped in a different keyboard:
Is it a SATA drive. And i cant see it on the dios setup when i press f2 on start up. It does not recognize it. How do i make it see the hard drive. I formatted it on a mac.
I ran Diagnostics running please wait... Drive 0: Samsung HD160jj/P - Fail. Return code: 7
Drive 1: Philips CD-RW/DVD-ROM scB5265 - Diagnostics not supportedTest Complete,
I didn't see that you formatted it on a mac. Even if it was formatted NTFS I don't think a mac-formatted drive will work on a PC but haven't tried it myself. The drive needs to be formatted in the dell but if the diagnostics are right then the drive is bad. I don't think formatting in a mac would cause that as you could just delete the mac partition and start over.