[libra2222]

I have a Dell Inspiron 6400, with Windows Vista. I experienced the same symptom: black screen in the morning, rebooted a few times and went OK, but sure, it came back as a hardware error 0141 and 0142 and it does not boot anymore. NOtebook is about 4 weeks old. It looks very much as a hardware error, but I have been fiddling with the partitions, do you think it might have to do with it? I have never seen that kind of errors in desktops when repartitioning, but not very experienced in laptops. My best guess, as you said, might be a loose connector, but dont want to open it for fear of loosing warranty

[jtrue28]

had this issue this morning while surfing the net. code 2000-0141 running Vista 32-bit Ultimate with SP1 installed. Dell Inspiron 1720 purchased in Dec 2007. Luckily everything is still under warranty, so I called Dell (India). The lady seemed to have heard this problem very often and immediately told me to pull the hard drive out and put it back in. This process probably took about 20 minutes...only because the first 10 minutes were spent trying to find a small enough screw driver. Amazingly enough, this worked. I'm currently typing this message from that same Dell 1720. Now before anything else happens I'm going to make sure everything is backed up. Hopefully my experiences will help others.

Thanks

[twicebit]

Error 2000-0141 on my month-old Inspiron 720. The "Internal hard drive not found" message also says, "to resolve this issue, try to reseat the drive." Instead of that, I turned the machine off, and then back on, and it worked. Saved 20 minutes since I couldn't find a screwdriver.

A week ago, after a previous blue-screen message, Vista claimed that some anti-virus might be responsible. Norton offered an upgrade that they thought should be unnecessary. So far, THAT one has not repeated. Re-booting seems to cure a lot of things.

[jtrue28]

Even though "re-seating" the hard drive worked for me, the same problem happened a week later. I called hardware support again and they shipped out a brand new hard drive, motherboard and various plastics in case any were broken during the change-over. The Dell technician that came to my house brought all the hardware but ended up only changing the hard drive. All is fine now.

[Jon20]

I have the same problem, only different circumstances. I just got a new Dell Studio laptop. I had another WD laptop hdd from my old HP that died, the reason I got the Dell, so I decided to add it to my Studio to use it as a music and movie drive to free up the OS drive. However, whenever I plug it in, and turn it on, I get a boot failure error, then I go into BIOS and neither hdd is found. I unplug the WD drive and turn it on and all is fine. Then today I tried it again, it gave me the same error, but this time I tried the hdd diag. and it gave me the 2000-0141 error. I don't get it, there is a second bay, as far as I can tell, I'm new to the Dell BIOS setup, the second hdd is enabled, I just don't get it. It's like it's trying to boot from the second hdd, but that can't be because the boot order has teh first bay as the boot device. Any ideas, I'm going crazy. Thanks,
Jon