Posts by E-Down.

There was a probelm with the drive itself and I had to upgrade my BIOS to read the drive and reinstall the OS from the disk image. It's done. Thanks for the advice!

Well the drive fits perfectly....but the BIOS doesn't recognize the drive when I install it. I reinstalled to old drive and it came up fine. The new drive was manufactured in 2007 and my current BIOS date is something in 2004. I don't...

Quote: Originally Posted by MrEvil If the HDD craters on someone while the system is under warranty (but beyond the period where an imaged drive can be sent) Dell provides Windows discs as well as driver and application...

Quote: Originally Posted by MrEvil Once you delete that partition it is gone forever. Dell will ONLY send you an imaged Hard Drive within the first year, after that the drives start coming blank and you are on your own...

I also checked Fujitsu's support website and I found a link for a BIOS V1.26 update that does not work....Is this due to the fact that I'm not using my laptop when I click on the link or is it just a bad link? Also the replacement...

I did something similar to my laptop, and the disc with the system image recovery option on it doesn't work now (because the partition is gone), but the image disk with Windows XP on it does. Did your system come with both of these...

eBay is the devil (LOL). I checked Nextag, but a lot of the items were refurbished and to me that's just buying time. Currently Computer Geeks.com has caught my attention as they seem to be the only legit online store with internal DVD...

It's nice. I like the interface. But FF has got me in a choke hold.

Yeah, it's just a taboo it seems, at any rate, I took the faulty DVD drive out already and I cleaned it, but no tomatoes. Does anyone know where to look to replace this drive (or one like it or better)?

I tried to clean the disk to see if that may be the problem. I was reading up on how you can boot from an EXTERNAL DRIVE (which I have), but don't have an option to in my BIOS to set my PC to boot from a USB drive. My BIOS version is...