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    Booting Problem

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by anaspmd, Sep 12, 2009.

  1. anaspmd

    anaspmd Newbie

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    I had bought a lap with 500 GB hard drive 2 days back. now its not booting properly showing a window
    " Window failed to start a recent hardware or software chage might be the cause Select from below

    1. launch startup repair
    2. Start Normaly     "

    in the first case i cannot restore the the factory settings nor the system restore
    and when i selsect normaly a blue screen blinks and the system get restarted again

    When i tried to setup using windows vista Disk its showing both drives but the main c drive (450 GB ) is shown as unallocated disk and when i created a following text popeup showing " Failed to create new partition on selected unused space "
    and only second drive 15 gb is shown active and its is a bakup drive of Dell
    please help..


    Thank You Brothers for ur Help.
    I got cleared by fdormating my hard drive using windows XP CD and again installing Vista .
    Thanks
     
    anaspmd, Sep 12, 2009
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  2. Fragilexx

    Fragilexx Get'cha head in the game

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    At the Dell screen, press F12, then find the option for restore to original settings. I mean, this depends on your exact model, but it's been F12 for quite a lot of them.
     
    Fragilexx, Sep 12, 2009
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  3. anaspmd

    anaspmd Newbie

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    F12 is used here for selecting the boot device brother. Mine is studio 15. pLEASE HELP IF U CN. THANK U FOR UR POSTING
     
    anaspmd, Sep 12, 2009
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  4. Fragilexx

    Fragilexx Get'cha head in the game

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    F12 is not only used to select the boot device, from within that menu you can run other things such as diagnostics, and I was sure that was where you could restore to original settings.
     
    Fragilexx, Sep 12, 2009
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  5. iLLuSi0N

    iLLuSi0N Notebook Consultant

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    If you are unable to do a factory reset. Than you might be missing out a step. Can't think of why this would happen though.

    If you wanna try something and are desperate than i would recommend you go into bios and change the hard drive mode from AHCI to IDE. Than try installing vista. If that works you can than do a factory reset and revert back to AHCI mode again.

    Or else you can use a partitioning utility by booting windows from a usb (bootparte method).
     
    iLLuSi0N, Sep 12, 2009
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  7. anaspmd

    anaspmd Newbie

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    My c drive is not showing any where. dude. i had done all these. but without showing the destination drive how can i install vista ? Onl;y the other drive is shown which contains the facrtory restoration files. The C drive is shown as unallocated space and failed to formate that drive too
     
    anaspmd, Sep 12, 2009
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  8. Fragilexx

    Fragilexx Get'cha head in the game

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    Can you not repartition it in the installation?
     
    Fragilexx, Sep 13, 2009
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  9. iLLuSi0N

    iLLuSi0N Notebook Consultant

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    If you are unable to create partitions using vista or xp reinstallation disks, try some other partitioning tool like partition magic (rescue disk method) or make a bootable cd and run some other disk utility. If those cant partition your drive than it definitely needs replacement.

    However I think that vista reinstallation disk is somehow unable to read partitions on your drive and there's nothing wrong with the harddisk itself. Probably the partition tables got damaged somehow. You should try something like this http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/.

    I prefer using acronics, which is far better or if you have an xp cd, use that by turning off AHCI from BIOS and try to partition using xp.
     
    iLLuSi0N, Sep 13, 2009
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