I have a dell dimension 8300 that had a HD failure. I replaced the HD and reinstalled XP Home edition. Now at startup I get a message
Hard Drive 0 not found.
Hit F1 to continue or F2 to go to setup.

I hit F1 and the Computer starts up ok.

How do I bypass or fix this need to hit F1 everytime I start up?

Hi and welcome to D-A-L

have you got just the one hard drive?

are all the connection good?

Also:

In the BIOS Setup will be/should be an option to turn off stop on error = F1.

I have seen this on Dell computers as their BIOS apparently are set to look for HDD 0 and the reinstall went to HDD 1. This is probably a partition rather than a physical drive. This is often used by Dell as a Recovery Partition but now has become the main and 0 no longer exists.

In the BIOS you should also have the option to set the hard drive boot order. Set 1 before 0 or else disable 0.


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"... dell dimension 8300 .. HD failure. I replaced the HD ..."

If the new disk went where the old one was (ie; swap-out), then this may help;

http://support.dell.com/support/topi...933&doclang=en