Solved! Dell inspiron 1501 hard drive replacement

[guintod]

trying to replace my original 80g 5400 on inspiron 1501 with a western digital scorpio 160g 7200 but i get a bios bug #81 (000fdc80) when acronis boots up the new hard drive in place. acronis can't find the new hard drive. tried to get help from dell but i get forwarded from one dept to another without resolution. chipset ati radeon xpress 1150, cpu amd turion x2.

 

[pcfixed]

use the new hard drive on another computer and format it, then put it on this laptop and install.