hard drive instalation help

Donnie

What Vista installations??

Donnie

Take a look

barjam_2

new day start afresh i clicked install duh!

i've clicked repair vista does not show its asking for me to insert media installation for the device click ok to select driver

Donnie

barjam wrote: »

new day start afresh i clicked install duh!

i've clicked repair vista does not show its asking for me to insert media installation for the device click ok to select driver

Please rewrite using punctuation. Remember that someone has to read and understand what you are attempting to convey.

barjam_2

i loaded disk clicked repair when it ask's systems recovery options like in figure H there is nothing highlighted in the operating system so i cannot click next i can only click load drivers it then asks to install media drivers, (i'm pretty sure i'm going to quit with this :mad:)

Donnie

barjam wrote: »

i loaded disk clicked repair when it ask's systems recovery options like in figure H there is nothing highlighted in the operating system so i cannot click next i can only click load drivers it then asks to install media drivers, (i'm pretty sure i'm going to quit with this :mad:)

Are you writing this from a telephone?

Is your hard drive recognised in the BIOS?

barjam_2

what part of my writing can you not understand to make you think i am writing from a phone,


i don't know if the hard drive is recognised in bios, as i don't know how to find that out,

i am going to give up on this now, maybe get someone who knows what they are doing to have a look at it, rather than me just mucking it up more,


thank you

Donnie

barjam wrote: »

what part of my writing can you not understand to make you think i am writing from a phone,


i don't know if the hard drive is recognised in bios, as i don't know how to find that out,

i am going to give up on this now, maybe get someone who knows what they are doing to have a look at it, rather than me just mucking it up more,


thank you

You have got to be joking about the writing.

Anyway, reboot and and keep pressing F2 before and whilst it is starting up. That will get you into the BIOS screen.

You can take a look there(without changing anything) to see if it states that you even have a HDD in the laptop. Should tell you the capacity etc

If it is recognised, then we can try to change a setting in the BIOS to see if it helps.

JasX

JasX wrote: »

well first step would be to download the diagnostics tools from the hard disk manufacturers website and see what they have to say RE is the disk actually terminally faulty?

I'll also repeat my earlier advice which you don;t seem to have done (note this is not the Dell website, dell don't make hard drives!).

(Free) Low level manufacturers diagnostics will be able to thoroughly test the drive, do a full surface scan, repair the drive by block out bad/suspect data sectors and basically tell you if the drive's knackered or not.

There is no point trying to reinstall windows or anything else until you know the hard drive is good or not