how to i get a dell inspirion 600m to re-boot when it says the drive cant be found?
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your hard drive or master boot record may be corrupt or failed.  try resolving the bios boot.  when your Dell starts up go to the start up menu. it's either F2 or F12 it will show the option when you start the laptop.  once you are at the startup menu, do the following: turn on caps lock, scroll lock, and number lock. hold down the Alt key press the f key, then the e key, then the b key.  this will force your Dell to perform an automatic IDE configuration search.  It's a little secret I learned from the Dell enterprise support team.  I work with Dell computers in the business world.  If this doesn't find the hard drive, you will need to call Dell support.
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leave it plugged in and run a full system scan with Fdisk (scandisk). you should be able to pick just that flash drive, but you should check all drives. check automatically fix errors then reboot.. You've probably got a currupt driver or missing dll.
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will it boot into safemode (f8 on boot)? if so do a system restore ... if not ur sol i think ...there wont be any other backup unless you made one ... if you know what files then pull ur drive and stick it in the machine ur using now and copy the files you need to the system folders ...
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Remove it from Bios and try, not so sure it'll work, cos drive B is reserved for secondary Floppy Disk Drive.\n\nGood Luck :)
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Unplug the ipod first most systems wont boot with a usb device connected. If you have and it continues to say that, if that system is under warranty i'd call Dell. That system should contain tools that dell can instruct you on how to access. The only one i can remember right now is ctrl F11. That accesses the hidden partition to reload your system.
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Here's the link to the support doc from dell to access the bios: \nhttp://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/document?c=us&cs=19&docid=36A6D75A79524337AC21BE95E3FB44C5&journalid=C8333D5EA4C311DABA8013BBFB51BDEE&l=en&s=dhs\nalso if you want to set the system to boot from cd without making bios changes follow the instructions in this link: \nhttp://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/kb/en/document?dn=1091660&l=en&langid=1&c=us&cs=19&s=dhs
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best bet is to find a Dell Restore disc.  Look at the bottom of the laptop and see if you have XP Home or Pro.  You can buy Dell restore CD's cheap on eBay, just make sure it's for the same version of XP that's on your laptop.\n\nYou should also visit Dell Support to see if the unit is still under warranty.
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Restart the machine.\n\nIf it stills boots into safe mode, restart again and hit F8 a few times.  This will bring up the boot menu.  Select Normal
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Ok, what you wanna do is restart your computer, then when the Dell logo appears press F2 repeatedly. You'll enter BIOS, and from then you will see how to set the boot sequence.
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make sure your jumper settings on the drive are set correctly\n\ngo into your bios setup at boot up time and make sure that the HD is showing \nto get into bios you hit the key that it says to hit in order to get into setup, tap it once a second or hair faster than that til it goes into setup\n\nusually its F1 that gets you into Bios\n\nbut on some bios versions it is the tab key\n\nif those two are good then go to control panel and device manager and make sure the Hd shows up in the list of hardware and that theres no exclamation mark or anything like that next to it\n\nif so then theres a problem, also if it doesnt show up in the hardware list at all\n\nchecking jumper setting is the first thing to check though, \n\n\nif it was my system i would put the new HD on the primary IDE cable and set the jumper to slave setting\n\nand go into Bios setup and set it to boot first if it has your OS on it and if not then make it second or third or fourth boot \n'
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Have you got a recovery disk?\n\nIf yes try that.\n\nIf no, seek expert help.\n\n///
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Umm, it's a Dell.  What more do you need to know?  Have you tried reloading Windows, though?
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if this is a win 98 system . boot up in dos or with a boot disk get to the dos prompt type  get to the root directory and type Fdisk/MBR , might work not guarenteed . depends on damage .Oops a little more info. sorry had to go. but anyway after enter this command you will not see anysignificant activity . just reboot again...hopefully fdisk will have fixed the problem and you wont have to worry about file recovery.
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The hard drive is not initializing. Keep trying to reboot, it should wake up and start working. When it does, make a back-up of your files asap, it will probably die on you soon although I've had them keep working like that for years.\n\nGood Luck\n\nMike\n\n===========================
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The OS is your operating system, which is probably a version of windows.  Reinstalling it is often a last resort, as it will wipe out all of your stored files.  It is also an easy first solution if you don't care about anything on the computer.\n\nIt's hard to know how to fix your problem because it could be a number of different things.  When you first turn your comptuer on it should go through what is called a Power On Self Test (POST).  You should hear a beep and than see a screen pop up as the computer tests all of the devices.  If all you see is a screen with a logo, such as "DELL", than your computer is hiding this test from you, but will usually at least show you any errors that come up.  We'd need to see those errors to help figure out what is causing the problem.\n  Also does the computer start loading windows at all?  If you see windows start to load before it crashes and gives yo uteh blinking underscore you can try booting to safe mode.  To do so press F8 as soon as you see windows loading, and then select it from the menu.\n\nA few other things to try: check to make sure you don't have a floppy in the disk drive, or a cd.  Check to see if you have any hard drive activity.  There is a light that normally flashes on the front of your computer when your hard drive reads or writes.  If you don't see it than you might have to replace your hard drive.
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Stick the disk in \n\nturn on the computer press f12\n\ngo to boot from cd \n\npress key quickly \n\nand it will take you through a reinstall just dont press repair. \n\nmake sure you put in your drivers disk afterwards otherwise things wont work
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Do a complete uninstall in the Hardware window and re-install. If that still doesn't work, it is possible that either the drive has died and must be replaced. That would be more likely than that the port on the motherboard has died, but that is possible as well as the not-likely ribbon cable failure.\n\nOne thing you might look at before replacing it is an IRQ conflict if you've added any hardware lately.