I put a harddrive from my dell computer in my gateway dx200s. It booted up but I could not verify profit key. So I replaced the dell harddrive with the original gateway drive but now it wont boot. beeps but wont boot. I don't even hear the drive turn on.

there can be two scenarios
1. the harddrive is not installed properly
2. the harddrive is not selected as the first boot device in the BIOS of the computer.

After you install new harddrive, you will have to reinstall the Operating System in the computer as well.

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alright when your computers Boots up it tells you several options such as F2 or F12 when you press this another menu should come up you need to change the way your computers boots up isntead of the harddrive put the CD/DVD rom FIRsT than the rest save and exit your windows 7 disk should be already IN!!! than it will load the little dot will be loading than it will tell you to boot from the disk press any key! press whatever and it will take you to WINdOWS 7!!! i hope this helps you and please leave positive feedback!!

First put your Windows CD in the drive.

While booting, the screen should offer you a couple of choices - Enter "Setup" and tell you which keys to press or "Boot Options" and again which key to select.

Try Boot options first, and choose to boot from CD. It will revert next time you boot.

If you choose or have to enter "Setup" . Usually achieved by pressing the "Delete" or "F2" key look for and change your boot options to select you CD drive first but make sure you put it back later.

You may have to re-boot a couple of times to find the commands I mention, they do flash through fairly quickly.

Restart the computer while tapping the deleate key this should bring you to bios go to advanced and check if the harddrive is listed with it highlighted press enter to enter the sub menu make shure its not disabled if it is enable it hit escape key to exit sub menu go to Boot on main menu set hard drive as 1st boot device set cd/dvd drive as 2nd boot device press f10 to save changes and exit. Try restarting
if you get msg opperating system not found use the system restore disk
Hope This Helps good luck
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HI,
When you remove the harddrive from a computer and plug it into a different machine though of the same model.It would not boot, because the operating system product key is unique to the machine. If you want to use this particular hdd in your home system, make it a secondary harddrive or reload windows on the harddrive again. But doing so , you would remove everything from the harddrive.

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I agree with the technician. Contact Dell, and order a replacement motherboard, and get the technician to remove the old motherboard, and install the new one -- it should *NOT* be necessary to reinstall Windows, if the replacement motherboard is identical to the original motherboard.

1. You can fix the MBR error by booting the Computer with a Windows Setup disk.

2. Boot from the Windows CD, and press "R" to enter the Recovery Console.

3. In the Recovery Console Enter your Administrator password.

4. Type in the following: bootcfg /rebuild

5. Then: fix mbr

6. Type: Exit


Good Luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello, Its really hard to downgrade from vista to XP on dell laptops. vista and XP use completely different drivers and dell has stopped writing drivers for XP. But still you can downgrade. You need to setup external SATA harddrive from where your XP CD should boot as it wont boot from your current harddrive that has vista. Even if you set these up and downgrade, Since dell has stopped writing drivers your new XP will not work with many new softwares and applications as you wont have drivers for them. I would advice you to use Vista. Good luck, Please rate the solution. ~regards, Jegan

If you have the resote disk make sure your cdrom is the first in the boot order, put inthe cd let it start up the op system it will req you to format the partition and so forth.. if you dont got the disk and the image was supposed to be supplied as well the n you need to send it back to dell and tell them to send you nother hard drive with factory image,

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I have experienced this problem as well, it is either the CD is scratch or the CD-rom lens needs cleaning, however it can read the content of the CD, I would susgest you try a another CD-rom , borrow it from a friend. It works for me.