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  • Vanity - Help need putting new HD in Dell notebook

    12/11/2005 7:05:52 PM PST · by Slump Tester · 53 replies · 962+ views
    12 /11/05 | Self
    I need advice from anyone having experience setting up a dell notebook. I build desktops but have never done anything with notebooks. I have an Inspiron 6000 that I bought as a refurb from the Dell outlet. (Like an idiot, I didn't buy the warranty.) It appears that the hard drive is bad, as after the Dell screen, the system never boots to windows. It just stays black. (I did have a BSD earlier.) I booted from an XP install cd, and it saw 3 partitions: The first one was a fat, and was 55Mb. The second on had a...