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    WherES My HArdRIVE gONe ?1?

    Discussion in 'Security and Anti-Virus Software' started by mrd33, Mar 20, 2008.

  1. mrd33

    mrd33 Newbie

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    New User Please help.
    I have a month old HP DV6000 laptop running XP Pro which has worked fine since bought.
    Without goin into techie details it work fine one day, and the next....

    Boot, XP Logo, Sliding bar travels 3/4 left to right then off to fatal error screen for 2 seconds then off to reboot again, and so on.

    Neither safe, command or both boot screens work.

    Booting to XP install disk is useless as there is no hard drive available?

    Entering CMD from the install disk reveals the HP hidden recovery drive (which =cannot be accessed) but no other drives or partitions.

    The HP diagnostic CD runs and tests the system with 100% success?

    CMD can see a removeable hard drive in USB but cannot do anything with it.

    I have seen a few posts on the web with similar issues but none have replies, so it looks like this may be a virus and not a soft/hardware fault.

    Has anyone else seen or know of this problem and its cure????

    Many thanks

    MrD
     
    mrd33, Mar 20, 2008
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  2. pixelot

    pixelot Notebook Acolyte

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    How about take the drive out, put it in an enclosure on another computer, reformat it, and see if you can then install XP on it from your computer.
     
    pixelot, Mar 20, 2008
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  3. talin

    talin Notebook Prophet

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    Please, in the future make your titles more legible. Writing that way wont get more responses. :)
    My suggestion would be as pixelot said, try it on another computer. It's hard to tell now what might be wrong. It could be something with your computer or the HDD itself.
    Keep us posted. :)
     
    talin, Mar 20, 2008
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  4. pixelot

    pixelot Notebook Acolyte

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    If you need to backup, try a Linux LiveCD.
     
    pixelot, Mar 20, 2008
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  5. mrd33

    mrd33 Newbie

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    Thanks

    Formatting must be a last resort as it is a business laptop and some important docs have been created since the last back-up which was only a few days before the laptop went daft..
    A lot of the work we do requires a good laptop running XP. Xp boots as default and was installed alongside Vista (but not dual boot). The laptop was a mare to set up with XP as a lot of the hardware only liked Vista.
    Is it a virus?

    Dave
     
    mrd33, Mar 21, 2008
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  6. pixelot

    pixelot Notebook Acolyte

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    Doesn't really sound like one to me, but it could have been caused by one...sounds more like you just need to reinstall, but like I said, you should try other methods of accessing the HD, and see if you can't get some of those files recovered.
     
    pixelot, Mar 21, 2008
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  7. John Ratsey

    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

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    It doesn't help solve your current problem, but I would strongly recommend creating a separate partition for the user files and documents. Vista seems to back up all the old stuff when reinstalled so it isn't as lethal as XP.

    However, my first move would be to put the HDD into an external USB enclosure and copy off anything that matters.

    John
     
    John Ratsey, Mar 21, 2008
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