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Can't reinstall XP or see hard drives, etc
Okay, so I want to re-install XP (again) because after raging and gracefully slamming my fists onto the keyboard of my netbook, I think I may have just destroyed the hard drive. When I used the prepared flash drive for installing Windows XP (using wintoflash.)
I don't see the hard drive I have on the list; C: is there, I can tell it's my flash drive though, as my real hard drive has way more then just 1GB available. So I try to both format it as ntfs and install and also leaving it intact with FAT32, it just encounters an error and says it can't continue because it's corrupt or something, and to press F3 to quit. I've tried installing from and on both a 2GB drive and 4GB Micro SD card, and lists both as corrupt when installing. Which is a lie, because I can use it just fine on any other OS that can see basic files and folders. The general overview is I'm not sure if I killed my hard drive or not because I can't get into any OS, so I'm downloading a netbook remix of Ubuntu to prepare on a flash drive to hope that will work as a temporary solution. If my hard drive has gone bai-bai like I think it has, should I get an external one to install XP on or work on getting one custom built for 300$ or so, because I really don't want to wait. If it hasn't, how can I still use XP on it if it can't recognize the hard drive at all? And yes, I mean XP. I really don't want to use anything else unless I have to, so please try to not shove Linux in my face (edit: apparently ubuntu is linux) Thanks. Last edited by DashArmy; July 31, 2011 at 03:06:31 PM. |
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I personally know someone who slammed their laptop in rage and killed the harddrive. He had to buy a new one. Hard drives are very shock-sensitive components during operation. They spin at around 200 times a second and a shock strong enough to make the head crash into the platters at that speed can have disastrous consequences. Let that be a lesson.
Last edited by Searinox; July 30, 2011 at 09:00:02 AM. |
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