My pc dell optiex gx270 when i attach 1 hardrive in computer in start up time in black screen message 0 seek failure , boot press f1 to stup press f2 when i press f1 message not boot drive find when go to bioss and find hard drive i sock the harddrive not connect ...to rettry to do the all think rigt but not connect after i renew assamble the pc then i connect diffrent harddrive it is ok then i reboot go to jumper setting attach my older problem hardrive its again same problem and windows not boot when i remove harddrive new hardrive is boot tell pls this problem i am student and this hard drive very important file so pls p[sl help me........ aman new delhi

For the diskette drive 0 seek failure, does the computer skip past this error without difficulty ? If it does, then you may ignore it. It is caused probably by your replacing the battery having reset the BIOS which is thinking now it should find a floppy disk to boot from. If you haven't a floppy disk, or have floppy disk drive you will get this message. I do, but I ignore it. When you power up, you could try entering the BIOS setup, by pressing for example, the esc, F1, F2 or F8 keys - for your model I don't know which, you may find out from the internet, your manuals, or the Dell website/help or support - repetitively before the computer starts,
( from Dell support - "You can enter the system BIOS or Setup on a Dell PC by pressing F2 at the Dell loading screen").and somewhere the BIOS setup there should be the boot order change this to CD first (no CD inserted unless it is bootable), then USB if available (no media USB inserted, some USB devices are ok), the HDD. You should not set HDD first because this will give you big problems if it goes wrong and you need to boot from somewhere else. Put floppy disk after HDD and the message will disappear.

I don't know about the password issue. I suggest you contact Dell support on this topic.

You may find the following links helpful


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Knowledge Base
and have a good look through this page
Product Support
and the associated links. In subsequent efforts try joining the Dell Users group (or what ever it's called, probably accessible from the link above and asking there, it might be a common issue that many have experienced and there are well known solutions to)

Sorry not to have been able to answer your questions directly, and to have pointed you in the direction of lots of reading, but I hope the links prove to be quickly useful

ONe of your sticks of RAM may be bad.

The "floppy" disk-drive (3.5-inch diskette) on your computer is broken.
Press F1 to ignore the error, and to boot from your C: drive.
Or, press F2 to enter BIOS SETUP, and then navigate through those "setup" screens to tell the computer to "disable floppy seek", or change the setting from "3.5 1.44Mb drive" to "none".
Or, take the computer to a technician, and buy a replacement disk-drive, and get it installed.

This indicates that your computer is configured to boot on the floppy drive.
1. At the start of the computer Press F2
2. Go to the Boot Device Configuration.
3. Enable Hard Disk Boot Priority.
4. Set the First Boot Priority to Hard Disk
5. Save and Exit.

Please let me know of the outcome. Thank you and regards.

try to disconnect, stretch the master cable of Hard drive and then connect it.

Please follow the below stesp:

Enter the setup, and there will be a setting in there somewhere called "Halt On" and if you set that to "No Errors" the computer should boot fine.
This works with Dell computers.
Diskette drive 0 seek failure — See "Drive Problems" in your Owner's Manual.

Press F2 look through the menus and remove / disable 3.5 floppy drives.

Hi, the reason why you are getting the message is because the bios is set to seek the floppy disk and the setting is enabled and to resolve that you just need to disable the option on the bios

Entering the System Setup Program

1. Turn on (or restart) your computer.
   
   
2. When the DELL™ logo appears, press <F2> immediately.
   
   
3. If you wait too long and the operating system logo appears, continue to wait until you see the Microsoft® Windows® desktop. Then, shut down your computer and try again.

Set the boot order to boot to the hard drive
And for the complete manual please visit http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/xlob/dtg/en/systemse.htm#wp1211060

press f2 go to the boot priority and select harddrive to the first boot.

Does the PC have a floppy drive? If it doesn't It appears that your BIOS (Basic PC setup) thinks that there is one! I think that pressing f2 on boot will bring you into the BIOS setup.
In there, see can you locate any reference to 3.5 inch floppy and amend it to the setting which suits the config of your PC.

Please take care as to what other settings you change in the BIOS

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