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Diskette drive 0 seek failure - Inspiron 530S

14 Dec 2008 10:19PM

After coming to the DELL BIOS 1.0.3 screen, I end up going to a black screen displaying "Diskette drive 0 seek failure". (F1 continue and F2 setup as options).  I have no floppy drive.  If I hit F1 to continue I have a blanking cursor on top with black screen. The screen then goes black after a bit and eventurally brings me back to the DELL BIOS 1.0.3 screen.  If I press F2 I go to BIOS setup, I've tried to change to settings to update no floppy in the BIOS settings to read "none" on Drive A:.  My SATA-0 is my hard drive.  My SATA-1 is my DVD/CD burner. I get another error, AHCI BIOS not installed! and then have another error saying "A disk read error occurred"  Press C,A,Delete to restart. And the whole thing over again.  Any help would be much appreciated. 

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Re: Diskette drive 0 seek failure - Inspiron 530S

27 Dec 2008 06:50PM

I recently had some problems with my Inspiron 530S and had to reinstall Vista as well as restore Dell to the factory image. After I did this, my computer did the same thing. I got the "diskette drive 0 seek failure" message and had to F1 to boot to windows. Well when I looked at my CMOS features, I saw that it said my floppy was 1.44m, 3.5 in. Since I don't have that size disk drive (i don't know who does anymore), I changed it to "none", and voila! that solved that glitch! Hope this helps!

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Re: Diskette drive 0 seek failure - Inspiron 530S

27 Dec 2008 06:53PM

PS to my previous message. I also had the ACHI bios not installed message, and i went to the Dell website and downloaded the lastest version of bios. and that solved that problem!

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Re: Diskette drive 0 seek failure - Inspiron 530S

26 May 2009 07:46PM

How were you able to install the latest version on bios? I am having the exact same problem but  I don't know how to install the new bios version since I can't get into Windows.  Sorry if that question is basic but I am pretty frustrated right now...

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