Dark_Rider2k3
May 22nd, 2013, 06:01 AM
So recently my mom's boyfriend had gave me a Dell XFR Rugged laptop. It's one of those military-grade laptops with the shock-proof hard drives. It came preloaded with windows vista (yuck!) but the original hard drive died and I got it in an attempt to fix it.
I got the new hard drive installed fine in the computer, and it shows up in the bios, but I can't seem to get it working.
I first noticed that Ubuntu loads just fine from the install CD (using 12.0.2 64 bit), but does not show the hard drive. I tried messing with some settings in bios (AHCI mode mainly) but there really isn't that many settings to choose from... leaving me stuck there..
I then tried windows XP. It showed the hard drive, but was unable to format the drive or edit it. It would let me install, however, as soon as I pressed enter for it to install I got a BSOD.
My last attempt was at installing windows vista. Vista also showed the hard drive, but told me in the install that the drive could not be accessed.
Does anyone know how I can get this to work? I'm so stumped.. and just want to get Ubuntu on this thing already...
Thanks a lot for reading this!!!!
I got the new hard drive installed fine in the computer, and it shows up in the bios, but I can't seem to get it working.
I first noticed that Ubuntu loads just fine from the install CD (using 12.0.2 64 bit), but does not show the hard drive. I tried messing with some settings in bios (AHCI mode mainly) but there really isn't that many settings to choose from... leaving me stuck there..
I then tried windows XP. It showed the hard drive, but was unable to format the drive or edit it. It would let me install, however, as soon as I pressed enter for it to install I got a BSOD.
My last attempt was at installing windows vista. Vista also showed the hard drive, but told me in the install that the drive could not be accessed.
Does anyone know how I can get this to work? I'm so stumped.. and just want to get Ubuntu on this thing already...
Thanks a lot for reading this!!!!