pdsnickles
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Okay... so I bought a new hard drive for my Dell Desktop 430 after the old one died.
I got it up and running and installed Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit again from the Dell re-installation disc. Yay!
(However in order to get it to install Windows Vista, I had to make a change in setup. It wouldn't install so I had read somewhere that changing to Autodetect RAID (or something like that) would help. I did, and it worked.
Then I created a partition using the excellent guide created by Brink at this forum! All good so far!
Then I grabbed a backup image of my old drive made by Paragon backup, and transferred it from my external backup drive to my partitioned drive R.
I then used the Paragon backup program to try to install the Partition over the C drive, loading it from the R drive.
It started doing its thing and seemed to be running just fine. I think there were 4 steps for it to go through to install the Image and it was on step 2 when I left home to go out for awhile.
When I came back home a couple hours later I found the blue screen of death and a message that said something like "No drive is detected to boot from".
I restarted and it just want back to the same screen. I restarted again and the same thing.
My question is, What happened?
Did the Paragon Personal Backup program kill my drive somehow? I find that hard to understand/ believe.
Or did the drive just die "out of the blue" because it is a lemon? That is my working theory.
How can I proceed from here? Is my drive really dead or is it just "playing opossum"? ;-D
Why did it apparently die while loading a disc image using paragon backup software?
What do I do now?
I got it up and running and installed Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit again from the Dell re-installation disc. Yay!
(However in order to get it to install Windows Vista, I had to make a change in setup. It wouldn't install so I had read somewhere that changing to Autodetect RAID (or something like that) would help. I did, and it worked.
Then I created a partition using the excellent guide created by Brink at this forum! All good so far!
Then I grabbed a backup image of my old drive made by Paragon backup, and transferred it from my external backup drive to my partitioned drive R.
I then used the Paragon backup program to try to install the Partition over the C drive, loading it from the R drive.
It started doing its thing and seemed to be running just fine. I think there were 4 steps for it to go through to install the Image and it was on step 2 when I left home to go out for awhile.
When I came back home a couple hours later I found the blue screen of death and a message that said something like "No drive is detected to boot from".
I restarted and it just want back to the same screen. I restarted again and the same thing.
My question is, What happened?
Did the Paragon Personal Backup program kill my drive somehow? I find that hard to understand/ believe.
Or did the drive just die "out of the blue" because it is a lemon? That is my working theory.
How can I proceed from here? Is my drive really dead or is it just "playing opossum"? ;-D
Why did it apparently die while loading a disc image using paragon backup software?
What do I do now?
My Computer
System One
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- Manufacturer/Model
- DELL XPS 430
- CPU
- Intel Core™2 Q8200 Quad-Core (4MB L2 cache,2.33GHz,133
- Motherboard
- 7200RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 16MB Cache
- Memory
- 6GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1066MHz - 4 DIMMs
- Graphics card(s)
- ATI Radeon HD3650 256MB Graphics (Integrated)
- Sound Card
- Integrated 7.1 Audio (IDT/Sigmatel 6.10.0.6017)
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Dell -1901FP Flat Panel LCD Color Monitor
- Screen Resolution
- 1024 x 768 32 bit
- Hard Drives
- 750 gig SATA 7200 C drive External Seagate 160gig " Western Book 160 gig " Hitachi 250 gig ALL USB except C drive
- Mouse
- Microsoft Intellimouse Trackball - (best design ever made!)
- Keyboard
- Logitech ITough Multimedia
- Internet Speed
- ATT Yahoo Elite DSL 4797kbps down, 624kbps up