installed new hard drive and I get a disk I/O error

[noobie]

Can anyone please help me? I have a dell inspiron N5110 for about 2-3 years. I think I had some hard drive problems so I ordered a new one and just installed it into my laptop. When I hit the power button, I get a disk I/O error, then a media test failure. When I look in the BIOS, I see my driver there and the dell diagnostic doesn't show an  rror anymore. Attached is a picture of the screen i see.

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[Allan]

You need to go into the bios and change the boot order so the hd is the first boot device. Also, before you do that replace the battery on the motherboard.

[camerongray]

Have you reinstalled Windows on the new hard drive?

[Allan]

His system is trying to boot to a network drive, not the hd. Doesn't matter if Windows is installed or not, he needs to replace the battery and change the boot order.

[noobie]

ok ill try that, what happens if you dont replace the battery and what order should it be in? Thanks

[noobie]

ok yea i just replaced the battery and changed the order so that the computer will boot the hd first. Im still getting the same message:( help?

[PCdoc]

In your BIOS, look for an option that says something like "Boot to network". Change it to Disabled. Also, in the boot order, make sure "network" should be in the end or if allowed, keep first boot device as Hard Drive, second as dvd writer and rest all disabled. Save and reboot the system.

[patio]

You need to go into the bios and change the boot order so the hd is the first boot device. Also, before you do that replace the battery on the motherboard.

He may have missed this step so i quoted it...
The flat battery will cause the "media test failure" message...

[camerongray]

We still don't know if the OS has been installed on the new drive.

Even if the boot order is set up correctly - If the machine cannot find an OS on the hard drive it will then move on to try to boot from the network.

[noobie]

I did change the boot order with but I'm not quite sure how to disable the "Boot to network" option since I can't find anything that says enabled or disabled.

 As for the motherboard battery, I did replace it.

I don't this there is a OS on the hard drive since I just put the hd in my computer with the backed up usb and turned it on only to find this message. Tried the recovery disk and it has the same thing.

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[PCdoc]

Are you able to press enter on the [network] (6th priority) and change it to disabled? If yes, please do so.

Secondly, you can also insert an OS bootable cd into cd/dvd drive and when the computer starts, press the change boot order key, mostly likely it should be either F12 / F10 / F9. Keep tapping them till you get a list of boot device to select from. Select cd/dvd drive and press enter on that option. It should boot from the cd/dvd drive.

With the above procedure you can continue to install an OS on the hard drive.

[noobie]

Thank you, just installed ubantu on my computer, now i have to get my backed up files on my usb to work

[PCdoc]

Gr8