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  1. 11-10-2005, 07:47 PM #1
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    Dell Inspiron 7500

    Ok, I have a Dell Inspiron 7500 and I left it on one night and when I woke up in the morning it was off. I turned it on and it said "No Operating System found" so I tried to reformat it and when I go through the setup it said that it cannot find hard disks drives installed in my computer. Does anyone have any idea whats the problem and how can I fix it.


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  2. 11-11-2005, 12:07 AM #2
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    Can you get into the BIOS? Does the hard drive appear there?

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  3. 11-11-2005, 03:39 AM #3
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    Nope, I can't get into the BIOS.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fabolous05
    Nope, I can't get into the BIOS.

    I would work on getting in to that so you can see if the HD is detected in there, usually right when it starts up you press F2, Del, Esc, F10, might be others, try those.

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    Well, I got into the BIOS but it said there is no hard drive. So im guessing that it died on me .
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  7. 11-12-2005, 06:38 PM #6
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fabolous05
    Well, I got into the BIOS but it said there is no hard drive. So im guessing that it died on me .
    thats a pretty bad sign, I would try to open up your laptop and take the laptop out and put it back in, maybe it just got knocked loose.

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    ur hard drive is dead buddy, if u still have a hardware contract u can have it replaced for free
    -otherwise should purchase one.
    i am a dell software tech agent, and usualy as soon as u c no hardisk installed in windows setup screen, that means ur harddrive is dead.
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  11. 10-13-2006, 08:42 AM #9
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    Smile Dell Inspiron BIOS password cleared

    I downloaded newest bios software from the dell website and flashed the bios. Then the password was cleared and i could enter the bios!
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