Raj,

Yes, PCI slot IDE controller cards are what I am refering to. Although Dell has a number of idiosyncracies to there BIOS and machines I don't recall having issue with adding IDE controller...

This may be part of the series of Dell that you have to make some changes in BIOS in order to get it to recognize hard drives. Look through your BIOS settings and see if there are settings for your...

Before you go much farther you might consider testing the hard drive using Seatools or the like, I'd hate for you to get everything up and going only to find the hard drive is failing. As for advice...

You might note the computer IP for that unit and if he comes back with a similar issue in the near future try to ping it from another computer, this could be a failing NIC. When this happens on a...

OK we'll be around to help, post us on if it fixes it or not and be sure to mark thread solved at the end - it helps other people in similar circumstances to sometime be able to see a completed...

Well at this point it is most likely that you a bad hard drive, we can try a recovery of the drive but I don't think it will work at all. After that the choices you have are is you want to first try...

Data cable - the wide cable that connects between the drive and the motherboard

Optical Drive - CD or DVD drive using a laser and lens to read data

Jumper - a small block that spans 2 or more...

OK, since you have changed boot priority and it isn't seeing the Hard drive - which is otherwise detected in BIOS, you likely have a problem with a cable, a controller or the hard drive. The cable...

Next step should be to go look and see if it detects the hard drives, and make sure the boot order has the hard drive at the top. Generally this is in one of the following generally: system...

When the machine first starts up you should try the various common keys for entering BIOS even before you see anything, especially if you have an LCD monitor as these often don't show the initial...

Actually, I think the first thing you should do is to check in BIOS what the boot order is set to. This is probably an instance where something is in the optical drive or that the boot order has...

Glad to be able to help you with this. Good luck to you in the future and remember don't ever smash that face too hard you may one day need it for something other than a hammer.

A this point I need you to take the side panel off your computer and look at the motherboard. The board should have printed on it a manufacturer name - ASUS, INTEL, GIGABYTE, MSI..., I nee3d that...

OK, first please try and do me the favor of using proper english in your responses since trying to help you solve computer problems without seeing the computer is difficult enough without trying to...