Recent content by jallen2000

Thanks for all the suggestions. I tried to reset BIOS, for some reason I can not save and exit, just exit. Not sure how to make that work for me beyond that. I tried the F11 but it takes me to a screen similar to F8, which means my only options are to restore to last known good configuration...

@saltgrass...I will do the BIOS reset later today. (I am a professor and have class this afternoon). I cannot do a factory restore because it is no longer available to me and I have no discs as Dell does not provide them. My question is: Will resetting BIOS to defaults work as if I had done a...

Please accept my apologies if the previous post sounded thankless. I'm only trying to answer as completely as possible the questions I am asked. I have opened lappy to confirm the hard drive and do in fact have 600GB. You are correct, the factory reset made most of the 600GB available. I...

When I bought the laptop, I bought it for the 600GB HD. When I did the factory reset, I checked my hard drive and I had access to about 580GB of the 600GB HD that I initially purchased in the laptop. I am not aware that a laptop can have more than one HD installed that could have somehow...

@ Drew...thanks...I tried what you said. This seems to confirm that my lappy is operating from the D: drive. I have pasted a screen print below. How can I get this thing to even look at my C: drive? @Saltgrass, when I did the factory reset I had 600GB, now that the upgrade is installed and...

Sorry if this is hard to see. I don't have anything installed right now so it's pasted into "paint".

Sorry, tried to post screen print...it didn't work. Going to look up how to post it now.

I have a dell inspiron 1521 originally running Vista home premium. Laptop was acting bad, not running properly etc. so I backed up my files and did a factory reset of Vista. All was working well, I had access to nearly all of my 600GB HD. I installed Windows 7 upgrade and downloaded...