Recent content by Wayne Bulleid

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    HHD replaced with SSD - No Boot Sector Found (Dell Inspirion 1545)

    right - I now have initialized the drive using my desktop computer...apparently a pop up should have appeared asking what action I wanted to perform. I clearly missed it. I now have an initialized sdd. Now reseated in laptop - BIOS sequence checked, going from CD with Win 7 disc on board...
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    HHD replaced with SSD - No Boot Sector Found (Dell Inspirion 1545)

    Also, and know idea of this helps, when looking in device manager, I can see the Crucial SSD and it says "This device is working properly."
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    HHD replaced with SSD - No Boot Sector Found (Dell Inspirion 1545)

    Hello - Could somebody please help? I have a Dell 1545 Inspiron that now has 8GB RAM and a Crucial 120GB SSD (swapped out last night). The original HDD drive failure has prompted me to do this. Problem: On boot, wiht the SSD onboard, message displayed, no boot sector on HDD Went to BIOS, no...