F1 to retry boot screen appears

I have windows sp3 on disk would that fix my problem i'm a computer dummy

 

Hello Piccolo, welcome to Major Geeks

Well your title referring to F1 sounds like a hardware problem, but service packs are software.
So what exactly is your difficulty and your system?

 

I,m giving the old dell to my son he is 10 and has downloaded a bunch of music and games so the computer loads are like 30 minutes just to get anywhere so we got another hdd for it the guy said it was easy to install we also got a new cd player i followed all instructions but when i turn the computer on it says alert cover was previously removed press f1 to continue when i do so f1 shows up again and the cd starts spinning faster than it should its a dell drivers and cat files cd does this sound at all familiar

 

I,m new so bare with me i need to know if i can reply by clicking on your name

 

f1 to continue appears then the it says f1 to retry boot oh first it says alert cover was previously removed then primary hdd1 secondary hdd2 not found

 

Did you set the new HDD as HDD1? If so, that could mess it up.

 

First lets get the pc back to running order without your new hard drive addition.

Then perhaps we can help install the new drive correctly.

You don't need to physically remove the new drive, just disconnect any cables you have connected and put them back to where they were.

You will not need the Dell Drivers CD at all.
Do you also have the Dell recovery Cd labelled 'Operating System'?

Can you tell us the Dell model (no)?

Can you also tell us the new drive make/model number?

You do not need to send me any messages, unless they are truly private, the idea of this forum is to allow all to see the fix and benefit thereby.

 

ok the model is optiplexgx100 the drive model is western digital (caviar 33200)now something else came up after i checked the wires and restarted there is a blue screen that says stop 0x0000007b(0xfe501030 with alot more 0 and also says inaccessible boot device

 

OK we are hopefully getting somewhere.

Extracted from the Dell specs for the GX100

I presume you have the mini tower as this is the only one that allows a second hard drive to be added?

When you make changes to the system, like adding a drive you need to enter setup to change the data held in the 'BIOS' about the system. This happens before windows loads and is the lowest level of the system control.

You enter the setup by repeatedly tapping F2 as the Dell logo appears.
In setup scrolldown to the bit about hard drives and follow the instructions at the bar at the bottom of the screen.
save changes and exit.

Look at this thread it has screen shots of a dell doing this.

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=149359

the system reboots.
Does it now load windows?
If not
Did it load windows before you started adding drives?
Are you sure you have put the cables back as they were?
did you change any jumpers on the original drive?

 

I dont even know what jumpers are

 

Please answer all the questions; we will complete the task much more quickly that way.

They are all designed to lead on to the next step.