Hiya folks, Well, it is pretty much as the title says. I have a Dimension 8400, the HDD on it could do with replacing. However, I have purchased two, one a WD, one a Samsung.

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I put one in the 8400, press F12 for boot menu (with XP install disc in CD drive) and choose boot from CD drive.it goes to setup, preps the driver type files.then offers the choice of installing XP, repairing XP or something else.then when i press enter to choose install XP.it says it cant detect a HDD. Now, in BIOS it detects the drive and its model number etc.and if i add the drive to a PC as a second drive, once formatted it recognises it.so why the hell wont it go through the installation process as a primary drive?? The drives are ok, i tried one on my Dimension 8300 and it installed XP without a problem. Talked to dell for ages on the phone (i'm out of warranty but because i was friendly the guy in india helped me anyhow).couldnt figure out what was wrong.sadly i've misplaced the diagnostics CD for this computer (grrr.) and they reckon either the motherboard or the memory must be at fault.but surely then my original drive, which i'm currently using at this very moment, wouldnt work either? Does anyone have any idea why it might not be recognising the HDD once its got past the setup stage?

Oh and does anyone out there have a Dell Dimension 8400 (PCI-E based) Diagnostics CD that they would be willing to post me? I'll obviously post it back to ya Anyhow, any thoughts appreciated as to what i could try, cheers folks! The drives are SATA II If i connect as a secondary drive then once partitioned it is recognised, or if put in as a primary drive (no other drive present) then it is recognised in BIOS including its full model number, but once the Windows File Setup has run, it wont recognise the drive to do the actual install no jumpers necessary.altho i did try a few different settings as i'm aware of the 1.5gbs/3gbs thing. Anyone else any clue? If I cant solve this then it looks like i'm going to have to fork out for a mobo, case, PSU and CPU.just thought, i'd need a new copy of windows too wouldnt i? I'd be happy to keep the 8400 running for testing new software to see what bugs it has, and use the new PC for gaming/videoediting.

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I have a Dell Dimension 8400. The hard drive crashed so I went to the Dell website, entered my System Service Tag #, bought the reccomended 'compatible' hard drive which is WD 1600AAJS 160 GB SATA Drive. I have a Dell Dimension 8400. The hard drive crashed so I went to the Dell website, entered my System Service Tag #, bought the reccomended 'compatible' hard drive which is WD 1600AAJS 160 GB SATA Drive. It arrives from Dell with nothing but a packing slip. I follow my 8400 manual to physically install the drive.done! Now to get it too work. SATA drivers and Dell 8400 Dimension I Need drivers for SATA hard drive for a Dell 8400, I followed another thread about this but to make the floppy you need an A: drive (3.4 floppy) not a CD drive. Same goes to load these driver durring XP start up from disk.

So annoying that it went simply on the 8300, but the 8400 is being a pain. Once more a plea, anyone out there with a Dell Dimension 8400 with 800mhz fsb and has a Diagnostic CD i can borrow?:/.

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Dont need SATA drivers, those are in the setup if anything, it works fine on the 8300 which is SATA as well. Sangharshana 2011 telugu movie. I think you only need SCSI drivers with earlier versions of windows or if its a dedicated SCSI card of a certain type.i think.lol anyhow, the guy on the phone said the diagnostics wernt available in the support section of dells site, only drivers etc.as he had actually been very friendly and helpful i figured i'd take his word for it.silly me.lol cheers, i'll try that see what it throws up.

A power surge recently blew my 8400 motherboard so I bought a replacement on EBay. The replacement boots up OK, but will not recognize 1) the old 2TB SATA Seagate hard drive that used to run the old blown out mother board 2) a blank 500gb Seagate SATA hard drive with a Windows XP Professional disk in the DVD drive. The Windows DVD will attempt to install but fails with the no hard drive found message. The bios will recognize a blank IDE/PATA hard drive. I have a distant memory that when I installed the 300GB SATA hard drive (this also got blown by the power surge) that initially powered the blown motherboard I had to download some Dell files (drivers/firmware?) on a floppy disk, put them in the A drive and hit the F6 key when I installed Windows XP home edition on this SATA drive. (The 2TB SATA Seagate hard drive was installed as a replacement for the blown 300GB SATA hard drive without a problem.