Notebook HDD Partition Problem

gdlkn84as · 11-23-2008, 05:45 PM

I have a Hitachi Travelstar 110GB SATA notebook HDD. I attempted to format the HDD with the Windows Boot CD. This HDD came from an HP notebook. Under the setup program, it detected two partitions (C:, D: Revovery) and some unpartioned space. I went to delete partition D: first, worked fine, went to delete partition C: and it started then hung. Since then I have not been able to boot the Windows setup program on the HDD, it hangs every time it says "Setup is detecting your computers current config." On my desktop, if I hot plug the drive windows will detect model and serial in device manager, but will not list it under removable drive, hd drives, or anything else. I also can not see it in disk management. All i want to do is format the entire drive, and install a fresh copy of XP with no recovery partition. I cant get anything to work. When i try to pull it up under disk management, the Logical Drive Search Engine Service fails..... I'm lost please help! Thanks in Advance

hitech · 11-24-2008, 07:06 AM

see if killdisk can low level format the drive when you put it back in the notebook
http://www.killdisk.com/downloadfree.htm
choose the iso. download imgburn if you need it to burn the image.
http://www.imgburn.com/
boot to the killdisk and choose hard disk.

11-23-2008, 05:45 PM	#1 (permalink)
gdlkn84as Registered User Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Indiana Posts: 1 OS: XP Pro SP3	Notebook HDD Partition Problem I have a Hitachi Travelstar 110GB SATA notebook HDD. I attempted to format the HDD with the Windows Boot CD. This HDD came from an HP notebook. Under the setup program, it detected two partitions (C:, D: Revovery) and some unpartioned space. I went to delete partition D: first, worked fine, went to delete partition C: and it started then hung. Since then I have not been able to boot the Windows setup program on the HDD, it hangs every time it says "Setup is detecting your computers current config." On my desktop, if I hot plug the drive windows will detect model and serial in device manager, but will not list it under removable drive, hd drives, or anything else. I also can not see it in disk management. All i want to do is format the entire drive, and install a fresh copy of XP with no recovery partition. I cant get anything to work. When i try to pull it up under disk management, the Logical Drive Search Engine Service fails..... I'm lost please help! Thanks in Advance

11-24-2008, 07:06 AM	#2 (permalink)
hitech Tech Hardware Team Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Kansas Posts: 606 OS: Windows	Re: Notebook HDD Partition Problem see if killdisk can low level format the drive when you put it back in the notebook http://www.killdisk.com/downloadfree.htm choose the iso. download imgburn if you need it to burn the image. http://www.imgburn.com/ boot to the killdisk and choose hard disk. __________________