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Yes, I tried to post earlier but the website went down. I got the new replacement hard drive in the mail and it worked. No errors on the Dell pre boot testing and no errors on the Western Digital version of Acronis and it's SMART test. I installed Windows Vista that it came with the laptop...

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Before i sent the broken new drive back, I did flash the bios but did not leave the battery off for that long. I have done it again now leaving the battery off overnight. I also flashed the bios updating it to the latest version. I do not know if that is the same as clearing the bios or not...

Hi, I did google the error codes a lot and just came back with vague "hard drive failing/ bad" type answers, nothing specific. I am sending the hard drive back for a replacement with New Egg as the drive was only a day old and had an errors immediately and nothing i did would make them go away...

Hello, I am trying to fix my wife's Dell Inspiron 1520. It began not booting up, I ran a diagnostic and it came with errors saying hard drive was malfunctioning. I tried to repair vista but it was no use. I bought a replacement hard drive from New Egg, a 750 Gb 7500rpm Western Digital black...

I upgraded a previous Tom's Hardware $800 build (5 years ago) to this one. I added a SSD. Just put it together and just get a black screen and no beeps!!!