dell inspiron 3700 hard drive boot problem

[mb26]

When i start booting with an inspiron 3700, the thing crashes and BSODs in the middle of a boot up.
It is booting from the HDD. the hdd is spinning (has power). when put in another laptop, it will boot up fully with that drive. the inspiron will boot up from CD.

what could the problem be????

[LeftyAce]

What does the BSOD say?

Are you saying the other laptop will boot up fully from the same HDD?

[mb26]

Originally Posted by LeftyAce Are you saying the other laptop will boot up fully from the same HDD?

yes.

What does the BSOD say?

-well, checking again, the original HDD on it doesn't get to BSOD (although i think it may have done at one point)
it gives an error before that;

Originally Posted by Dell primary hard disk drive 0 failure No boot device available - strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility

F1 repeats the message, F2 goes to bios. in bios the correct hard drive capacity is seen, and the drive is spinning.

When i tried putting in the hard drive from the other laptop in, it gave the following BSOD half way through the bars going across the screen as u load XP;

Originally Posted by Microsoft A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer. If this is the 1st time you have seen this message, restart, otherwise: check for viruses, remove newly installed hdd or hdd controller, check hdd to make sure it is properly configured and terminated. run chkdsk /f to check for hdd corruption, and then restart. tech info: *** STOP: 0x0000007B (0xFE23F528, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

This was a 30gb hdd (which is much newer than the laptop) so this may explain that error, although i am unsure. the bios detected it as 30,007MB correctly.

[mb26]

anyone??

[pam123]

I think you've answered your own question, it's not the hard drive or the Windows install that's at fault, works fine in the other computer.
Going by the messages your laptop has a motherboard problem with the hard drive connection.
Is it still under warranty?