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Hard Disk Drive

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sumanrgh Original post #1
Apr 8, 2011 at 1:38 AM
Hi Friends

I have a laptop of Compaq 1GB Ram, 160 HDD, with Windows XP professional.
suddenly my laptop unable to read HDD when i am trying to reinstall XP. But when I check it from bios it pass HDD self checking and also work with Ubantu Linux. but with xp my laptop did not read hdd. please help me i want to xp again. Please...
desiibond
desiibond #2
Apr 8, 2011 at 3:27 AM
see if you can repair your XP using Xp boot CD. looks more like an issue with the OS.
gameranand
gameranand #3
Apr 10, 2011 at 8:42 PM
See if BIOS settings for HDD is native SATA or IDE. Change it to IDE then it might work.
mitraark
mitraark #4
Apr 14, 2011 at 9:12 PM
USe another XP CD [ of another preferably latest XP Version ]maybe //?