Installed old hard drive: PC doesn't boot.
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Thank you for reading my question. I have a 1 year old laptop running vista on which I just upgraded the hard drive yesterday. I was able to use the recovery disks and add all of my old programs with out a hitch. The Laptop worked perfectly.
I then took the new functional hard drive out, and put the old functional hard drive back in the laptop to get some last pieces of data. The laptop wouldn't boot. I tried putting the new hard drive back in to the laptop but the computer still wouldn't boot. I tried reseating the hard drive and the RAM a few times still no luck.
The computer powers on and I hear it check the DVD drive. The LED light for showing its powered up comes on but the LED that shows the hard drive is working does not. I can hear the either hard drive spinning but no sound of it retrieving data. The motherboard only supports one hard drive at a time. Any ideas? Thanks again.
I then took the new functional hard drive out, and put the old functional hard drive back in the laptop to get some last pieces of data. The laptop wouldn't boot. I tried putting the new hard drive back in to the laptop but the computer still wouldn't boot. I tried reseating the hard drive and the RAM a few times still no luck.
The computer powers on and I hear it check the DVD drive. The LED light for showing its powered up comes on but the LED that shows the hard drive is working does not. I can hear the either hard drive spinning but no sound of it retrieving data. The motherboard only supports one hard drive at a time. Any ideas? Thanks again.
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The hard drive light stays on when the hard drive is being accessed. In this case my hard drive was not being accessed so there was no light. I did find a solution though. I read it on another forum. I never thought it would work.
I rubbed a clean pencil eraser on both sides of the connection point on the Ram. How in the heck the ram got involved I don't know. Static electricity I guess. Lo and behold when I put the newly erased ram back in my laptop it worked perfectly. The link below is where I found this solution.
http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-27227-computer-power...
mad props to the guy on the forum.
I rubbed a clean pencil eraser on both sides of the connection point on the Ram. How in the heck the ram got involved I don't know. Static electricity I guess. Lo and behold when I put the newly erased ram back in my laptop it worked perfectly. The link below is where I found this solution.
http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-27227-computer-power...
mad props to the guy on the forum.
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