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Failed Drive replaced-new one fails
Dell All in One 2305. 5 years old. 4GB ram. Failed drive which I had to replace. Removed it (Seagate 1TB Sata 3) and installed a new one. Seagate 1TB Sata 3. Loaded system recovery dvd's that I made when I purchased the system. System restore took place. Loaded all the programs that it came from factory with. Took around an hour to get the programs loaded - suddenly it gave off with beep beep and command window opened with message: Unable to locate a valid partition to mount - RW_FAT16. This is not the complete message as it kept scrolling so it was hard to read. Then it would go to the windows start page, Welcome, and reach a point and go into the command window again.
This is not the fault of the drive, correct? It seemed to be doing its job. I also made a repair disk. Should I use that or what? I just purchased the drive yesterday - should I return it and if I can return it, should I erase whatever DID get loaded on it? Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks