Re: PC Does Not Recognize HD???

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You took the computer for repair and they gave it back to you in a non
functional state?

Bring it back to them and tell them to fix it right this time!

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Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!


"robert t" <nodak2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I had to have a Computer shop erase the HD in my Dell Dimension 8250
>because Windows XP gave me an error message that Windows Explorer was
>closing down. That put me in a loop I couldn"t get out of. The error
>message kept coming back and I couldn't access the START menu. I had 2
>partitions(C&D) on the PC. Tried to reformat(erase) the C partiton using
>FDISK but that wouldn't work. I wanted to try a clean install. Took the HD
>to a computer place where they reformatted the entire HD. I thought I could
>then use FDISK to repartition, reformat and do a clean install but my PC
>will not even recognize my HD at all now. I am backed up on an ext. HD so I
>have my data accessable through my laptop but I want to get my Dimension
>8250 going again and don't know what I should do.
> Maybe the computer place erased something that Dell put on the HD which is
> why the computer won't recognize it. There are 4 lights on the back of my
> computer which should all be green after boot up but one stays orange. I
> have thoroughly checked cable connections, etc. I don't know if the HD
> has gone bad, but am afraid that if I buy a new HD the PC may not recogize
> it either. All comments, suggestions would be appreciated.
> Robert


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