HI! i recently had a hard drive failure (samsung sp2014N 200gig). i had it running over night on a p2p network (im thinkin virus/hacker got at it) i woke up in the mornin and it had frozen. i restarted and was told to insert boot disk. i did and re-formatted my hard drive with the windows xp cd. it installed everything fine and rebooted as expaected. when it came time to find an operating system it said there wasnt one and did theis process again. it is now stuck in a endless loop of formatting and restarting. my friend recommended a low level whipe (or something like this. im unsure of exactly what he did) and it now does exactly the same thing. i put it in another computer to see if it would be recognized. at startup it detected the drive and loaded xp off the C: drive (has a partition to make a C: and D: drive). after it loaded it said new hardware detected in the lower right hand corner and correctly identified the hard drive. i opened my computer and there was only a C: and D: drive (remembering the partition) the spin point want an option at all. any ideas what is goin on here??? do i need a new drive or can this be salvaged somehow. any help is greatly appriciated. thanks.
Jason
Jason