I recommend you try Knoppix to see what it says about your harddrive. It has excellent hardware detection, and will install on almost anything x86 compatible.
Worth a try - but having just tried morphix (which I understand is derived from knoppix) on an Inspiron 2500, I wouldn't count on it finding all your hardware. Darn thing dies doing scsi detection, on a system without scsi. It seems to do the scsi detection way too early...
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