I have a Dell Inspiron 1545. The hard drive is failing. I purchased a new hard drive from Dell last week. Installed it but keep getting an error stating no hard drive found try resetting the drive. I've reset the drive several times and no luck.

. . and also that I really do not that much about this kind of thing. Specs: Dell Optiplex 755 Intel(R) Core 2 Duo CPU 1.20 GHz, 980 MB of RAM Display Adapter: Intel(R) Q35 Express Chipset Family I have 4GB of RAM coming in the post next week which will promptly be installed.

It is a problem that affect the whole M17X series. I discovered a lot of forums worldwide with posts like this of people affected by this problem. Even in the dell communities worldwide.