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    My HD is fried!! HELP!

    Discussion in 'HP' started by bluecougar, Feb 6, 2007.

  1. bluecougar

    bluecougar Notebook Enthusiast

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    Not fry per se, but in the state that it is it is just the same!

    Here is the story:
    I booted as normal, an the recovery partition was loaded (??) I canceled the recovery partition installer and now all I get is a black screen when I try to boot up! I loaded the recovery CD and selected boot from disk on the BIOS. XP starts running but when I select install or repair it tells me that there is no hard drive on my machine.

    I have ran both test on the HD from the BIOS and the results come up as PASS both time. What in the world could be happening!

    If anyone can help, please let me know what I can do. I don't want to send it to HP. For heaven's sake this is my second notebook in 2 months!
     
    bluecougar, Feb 6, 2007
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  2. aphexacid

    aphexacid Notebook Consultant

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    Try going into your bios and disabling sata. then try a repair
     
    aphexacid, Feb 6, 2007
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    mtor Notebook Deity

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    How will that work if the HD is fried?
     
    mtor, Feb 7, 2007
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  4. SideSwipe

    SideSwipe Notebook Virtuoso

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    if its fried then it wudnt have been detected in the first place and besides what he is suggesting wont hurt to try. did u try and load the recovery partition? i think u do this by pressing f11 in mine. if u can try and do that and then see if u can do a system restore (not sure if u can do that b4 getting into XP) or just reload/reinstall windows (not a destructive recovery as that formats). If this solves your problem then you know there was probably an issue with the file system but it wudnt hurt to run more diagnostics by the manufacturer and run chkdsk too.
     
    SideSwipe, Feb 7, 2007
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