I Have a compaq V6000 running Vista and the other day i turned it on to find Missing Operating System.. I have no recovery disc so i tryed booting the partition with F11 on start up but no luck.. So i started to hit F8 to find repair your computer but no luck. I got a copy of Vista and boot from disc and hit Repair your computer but it didnt detect any C: or D: (recovery) partitions. So i got a copy of XP boot it from disc and it is still detecting no Hard Drives...
Realiseing this was not a quick fix i removed the hdd and connected it to a working machine tru usb.. I was able to scan and fix D partition but to access C it wanted me to format after a few unsuccessfull Formats i decided the drive was dead,i tryed one mor time to access the recovery partition with F11 after useing Chkdsk but no luck... I have spare sata drive here so i placed it in the broken compaq and tryed to install XP but it is still not detecting the hdd.. i heard somewhere about new chipset drivers have to be installed but know nothing about this.. Can anybody help? Is this a motherbord problem? Any ideas would be much appreciated...
Realiseing this was not a quick fix i removed the hdd and connected it to a working machine tru usb.. I was able to scan and fix D partition but to access C it wanted me to format after a few unsuccessfull Formats i decided the drive was dead,i tryed one mor time to access the recovery partition with F11 after useing Chkdsk but no luck... I have spare sata drive here so i placed it in the broken compaq and tryed to install XP but it is still not detecting the hdd.. i heard somewhere about new chipset drivers have to be installed but know nothing about this.. Can anybody help? Is this a motherbord problem? Any ideas would be much appreciated...