It's about 100 bucks of a drive from geeks.com or newegg.com and in my opinion cheaper than a new laptop or a trip to the service counter.
If you are looking to verify that the drive is dead, the test is to put in a new drive or take the drive out and put it into another machine. Some may find that revolting but this is how its done.
Bob
hello,
i have a dell inspiron 1100.i tried to format my hard disk and reinstall the existing operatin system(windows xp home edition.).when i tried to boot the system it is saying that
primary hard disk drive 0 falied
No bootable devices-- strike F1to retry boot, F2 for setup and untility following a beep beep sound.
when i try to reboot using F1 it is showing the same.
when i entered BIOS it is notshowing the hard drive.
it is showing in the field
Primary Hard Drive :none.
when i try to format the hard disk using the os cd it is not able to format.
my opinin is that my hard drive is crashed as it is not recognized in BIOS and not able to be formatted.
but iam not sure of the hard disk failure.
please help me in this regard.
thanks.
my notebook details are here.
DELL
Model: INSPIRON 1100
BIOS Version A28.
intel pentium 4 2.40 GHz
Modem controller Broadcom plaris.

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