R60 Partition and HDD broken

[chrishorris]

Hey..

I was partitioning my drive with Partition Magic and it was in the boot up stage where it does the actual procedure, and it came up with an error and then stopped.

I got an fdisk boot program and deleted all partitions and MBR and everything I could think of, even creating a new partition and trying that.

I now try put an XP cd in and it says there are no HDDs present and I must check if they powered on and stuff, also says the Heads and Cylinders have something wrong, gives a warning in the FDISK prog.

Any ideas guys?? Really desperate, Thanks alot

[andyP]

Is your hard drive shown in BIOS?

If it is shown you could try another program other than windows to try and address it. If there are no important files to rescue or recover I always use IBM SDD, if a hard drive is through whatever process corrupted SDD at the lowest level normally, (for me up to now), resolves the problem. You can get it here:

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... d=TVAN-SDD

Why it's 12MB and you can create an FDD or bootable CD I don't know, but it is

[chrishorris]

Thanks but tried that and it still wont pick it up...

[andyP]

Is the HDD recognised in BIOS?
Did SDD recognise the HDD?
It may be the XP CD doesn't recognise the HDD because of the SATA settings in BIOS.
When starting the TP press F1 and go into BIOS, select config and then SATA, set the value to compatible - this allows a normal XP cd to be used.

[MeanGene]

What other steps have u tried? Have u tried reseating it?

[MeanGene]

in the R60 there is a hdd diagnostic tool in the BIOS have u tried using that?