Help With Reinstalling XP on a Dell?

My Little brother's friend told him to bring his computer hard drive over to their house and so they can play on Computers together. (His friend has a spare computer) So My little did so, However some how I dont know how, They managed to completely break the hard drive (Im think its been stepped on or thrown) Well Its beyond fixing. So ive been out and brought a new hard drive for the Dell.



I have formatted and Reinstalled OS on a lot of Systems before but never a Dell. I followed the Dell manual but Nothing is happening.

The New hardrive is in correctly however once the Computer is passed Bios it just comes up with Boot Strike 1 failed press F1 to try again or F2 to enter set up. Ive been in the Bios and The hard drive is there showing up nicely like it should.



Im booting the Computer with the Dell XP Re install disk in the drive. I am getting No windows coming up, No blue screens, Just Boot Strike 1 failed press F1 to try again or F2 coming up on a black screen.



Ive changed Boot settings too, so it boots from CD/DVD drive and then Hard drive 2nd (and the other way around) and still nothing.



Ive also done the Whole F12 thing and selected every option out the 6 and still I get Boot Strike 1 failed press F1 to try again or F2 message.. Help? Any one have Ideas? Experinced this? Anything?Help With Reinstalling XP on a Dell?
Check to insure that the power and data cables are still connected to the CD/DVD drive. They may have been knocked loose when the hard drive was removed/installed.



If you are using IDE devices and both drives are on the same IDE cable then make sure that the drives are properly configured as Master/Slave with the hard drive as master and the CD/DVD drive as slave.



Check your Windows installation disk and make sure that it is still readable and does not have a lot of scratches or corrosion on it. You can actually try to boot on the disk from another computer just to check that the disk is still readable. To be safe, you can unplug the hard drive on the test computer to make sure that nothing is written to the test computer's hard drive.



Should the disk be bad Dell will replace them for you for a nominal fee.Help With Reinstalling XP on a Dell?
I can't understand WHY he would expect the HD from one computer to run correctly on another computer with different hardware. It doesn't work that way!



IF there was a spare computer, it should have had it's own OS and HD; OR he should have taken his whole computer, not just the HD.



It would need to boot from the CD/DVD drive FIRST in order to install an OS. (THAT is set in the BIOS.)



I assume this DELL had the OS pre-installed when purchased.



IF so, there was a ';hidden'; partition on the HD that contained MOST of the OS, and that the re-install disc NEEDS to access this partition to re-install the OS.

Your NEW drive lacks the partition, and therefore the needed information.



You can TRY to get Dell to give you a replacement, which, being an older OS they probably can't/won't do anymore; OR you can buy a NEW copy of the OS, IF you can find one, OR possibly a ';data recovery'; service could ';pull'; the information from the damaged HD and install it on the new one.



It is QUITE likely that a system that came with XP is NOT capable of handling Vista or Win7 and therefore can NOT be loaded with a newer windows OS.
try removing the cmos battery for a couple of minutes, it may be a bios problem.

also make sure that the new hdd jumpers are set to master and u have it plugged into the correct ide...
It doesn't sound like your using the correct Dell XP disc. You should be able to right to it and install the OS. Are you sure your not using a backup disc?

All Dells allow you to reinstall the OS and not even have to input a KEY!

Also it should be F12 then boot to CD and then hit enter to load OS from CD !

RECHECK YOUR DELL INSTALL DISC.

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