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Old 11-23-2008, 05:45 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Question 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
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Old 11-24-2008, 07:06 AM   #2 (permalink)
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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.
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