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Search instead for. Did you mean:. Last reply by jackie Unsolved. Please Help: "Hard Drive Failure My Inspiron has failed to boot from the hard drive on two occasions, giving me a disturbing message, "Hard drive failure," followed by something about a bootable disk, etc. This has now happened twice, and it is followed by an unnerving clicking noise, similar to when the system is looking for a floppy disk in a drive that doesn't have a disk in it.

The laptop has only the removable CD drive installed when this happens. No hardware changes have been made on the computer.

The laptop has the original HD. No changes have been made to the Bios lately. Is my disk about to fail, or is something else to blame? All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic.

Replies Jakpro wrote: ATA 6 hard drive should work in the 1. Thanks for the help. Just to clarify, I believe it is a 2. Jakpro 3 Zinc.

If no new hardware was added or you continue to get this prompt, verify no error or conflictions exist in CMOS. Press the indicated key to enter setup and verify that all settings are correct. If your time and date are not set correctly, your CMOS battery is more than likely bad. Try setting the correct time and date, save the settings and then reboot. Replies 7. Hi, The F Please help I will buy the beer! Hi, I dont have much to add, except to assure you that the "SCSI bios not installed" message is not the problem, it just happens to be on the screen when the F Pat Chartrand.

Got the same error on my PowerEdge When I connect the 3 power supplies, the error was gone. My PE has 2 power supplies, only one was connected but theres no error like this. Hope this help. FYI, I just had the same issue with a , and it turned out that the bios somehow detected a keyboard error there is an el cheapo KVM switch connected.

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