my computer says "hard disk 0 not detected" and i have a dell what should i do?
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your data cable has come off the motherboard , if you are confident enough just open her up and check all the cables are nice and tight, oh dont forget make sure it is not plugged in !
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You didn't state straight out what type of drive you D: drive was, but you were nice enough to say it's FAT 32 which means it must be a hard drive.\n\n1. Power off computer, unplug everything from it. Open the side of the case. Hold on the the case while making sure that your IDE ribbon is connected to your hard drive. Make that the power is connected. Make sure that the jumpers are in the correct position. Your D: drive is most likely a slave. So make sure the jumper is in the slave position. You can find which is by lookin on the hard drive. Most hard drives show you which jumper is for which setting. If it is on slave try putting it on Cable Select (CS) Put everything back together, restart the computer. Check to see if it can r/w to the drive.\n\n2. Try putting the Hard drive on the other IDE controller with your CD drive and see if it is able to work there.\n\n3. Start computer in safe mode, can you r/w to the drive? If so it's related to start up items or your currect drivers. First try reinstalling drivers to see if that fixes it. If that doesn't try disabling your programs that run when the computer starts\n\n4. Check device manager (right click "my computer" left click properties, click on the device manager tab) Make sure that your driver is properly installed. ( you can do this visually. If there is a question mark or exclamation point or red X on your hard drive, reinstall the driver)\n\n5. Check to see if there are updated drivers for your IDE controller. You can find those on the internet.\n\n6. If that doesn't work try putting the hard drive in another computer to test if it works on that computer. If it works, then the problem is solely with your system. \n\n7. You can try to run sfc.exe. click start>run..> type command click ok. at the prompt type "sfc.exe /scannow" make sure to have the Windows 98 SE disk in the CD drive when you do this. This will make sure that your windows system files are in proper working order.\n\nRecommendations: Please consider upgrading your operating system. Windows 98 SE has so many holes in it. Plus it doesn't support NTFS and it's a 16 bit OS. Plus the OS is getting on 10 years old. (Unix/linux users don't care about how old it is, cuz it will always work) Windows OS's have a relatively short shelf life.
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You won't be able to tell anything until it is turned on. Check all the drives and make sure they are working, the amount of memory, hard drive (check this in the BIOS). Listen for strange noises with the power supply fan, CPU fan and hard drive.
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The Blue Screen of Death..... try to start in safe mode. if that will not work,  your HD might be Dead....
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Is the DELL computer bought recently??? If it has been bought recently, then there is an already installed software on the computer which can do the work for u. Its called PCRestore. It will totally erase the hard drive and install the whole of the operating system and all the software that might have come along with the computer. The computer's software would be as if was just taken out of the box. But, I must mention that this will erase everything on the comp. \n\nPC Restore can be done this way: \n\nRestart your comp and immediately you would see a blue bar on the top. At that point hold down the Control (Ctrl) key and keep tap F11 2-3 times. You would see, "PC Restore by Symantec". Now, use your mouse to click on Restore. Then on the next screen click on confirm. This process would take about 10 minutes to complete. But, I must warn you, all the information on the computer would be LOST and it would be as if just taken out of the box. \n\n\nOtherwise contact DELL Free Technical Support for assistance. The number is 1-800-6249896
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Looks like you have done most of the troubleshooting. Call up Dell. They would assist you in probably replacing the drive if the system is within contracts.\n\nBut they might ask you to repeat the steps you carried out and a few more, just to make sure its not the fault with the operating system.\n\nGood Luck!
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The hard drive may have failed. Go in to the BIOS and see if the drive is found.
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Go to the manufacturer site of your computer (Compaq, Dell, etc.) and search for drivers/downloads for your MODEL of computer.  Make sure you find the exact model that you have.  Look for the "chipset" download.\n\nPull that down, install the chipset.  Restart your computer.  If that does not work, please email me at mgopher007@yahoo.com
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either your harddrive is crashed, of it is bad. It need major work, if you were here where I lived you could bring it to me, but you should take it to a shop where they can find out the problem
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Unfortunately it means that your hard disk is dead. Better take the laptop back to the shop. Data is hardly ever recoverable.
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First problem is it's a dell. look at the cd drive on the computer it should say on the front.
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you need a windows disc. something has happened to you system files on the HD, it might jsut be a cable came out though, have a check when the computer is turned off.
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Use Fdisk to delete the partition then Reinstall Windows. Doubt its a dead harddrive
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Like all electronic components, computers are bound to be reliable or unreliable. Dell doesn't actually make any components, they just assemble a bunch of components. Pretty much the only things they design are the cabinets and those are always good. \n\nYou can just swap out your hard drive. go to newegg.com and get a new one. \n\nif you get a whole bunch of error messages, you might have a faulty mother board.\n\nI had a computer which stopped working because a mouse took a crap in it
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It's possible a portion of the hard drive has been damaged. Will it start in safe mode? You may need to start fresh and reinstall windows. If it's too old it may not be able to work on a wireless network. See if you can upgrade to at least win 2000 It's close enough to xp to have most of the same compatible software and hardware requirements.
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It sounds like there is a lose connection between the hard drive and the motherboard.  Check your ribbon cable.  If that is not it maybe do a chkdsk/f to check for any errors the drive may have.
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Make sure you have the correct backup disks.  Contact Dell with at least one of the titles you are missing.