hawkfire-1776
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Obviously I joined because I have a problem that I believe to be unique. And should it be solved, well then everybody can learn from it. Plus, I didn't find anything searching for this problem and I did't think I was going to find anything soon. Basically, I'm intermediately skilled and read forums quite often.
Here's my problem and I'll try to tell the story the best I can remember:
I have a 80gb harddrive on my laptop, running windows xp. NEW HARDDRIVE!
I installed EASEUS Partition Master, liked it and started changing drives, basically messing around with it which I wish I never did now. I created two Primary drives, for different OS's I thought I might put on each. I resized them, plus manipulated the logicals, etc. I pretty much tried everything with this program, to learn from it and see how it worked.
I decided to completely start over and rebuild the drive using the bootable EASEUS disk. I intended on putting 15 GB of the drive for Windows XP, the rest DATA.
First I deleted all the partitions untill there was only one unallocated file.
I rebooted computer (disk in drive of course) and began to create a drive, the program just hung there, wouldn't get past 5% of the process, if I remember correctly.
So, then I rebooted with my old trusty Windows 98 boot disk (with FDISK, FORMAT,etc already on it), I ran FDISK ...from there the process of checking the intregrity took place (which took a long time BTW) ... from there it asked if I wanted to use all of the drive or a smaller amount, I chose smaller and started to do the check of integrity all over again. I saw that this was simply wrong, since it was taking forever just to get to 1% (never happened like this before) so I shut it down and rebooted with the win98 floppy in.
Here's where I'm stuck, at the A:\>prompt (and C:\ ) I keep getting the message, "no fixed disk present", and I've tried this from, C
rompt and Arompt. The bios was naming the drive and recognizing it in the bios during boot. Now in Bios it's Primary Master: None. Keep in mind I never broke into this new laptop .
Another thing I tried was booting with the EASEUS bootable CD I made. I did this twice. THe first time the drive letters came up as stars (*), no letters. NOw when I boot with this CD, I get absolutely nothing, no drive, no unallocated space and the program will let me do nothing.
As mentioned earlier: Now in Bios it's Primary Master: None. Keep in mind I never broke into this new laptop .
I don't know what to do now. Did I completely destroy this hard drive?
Here's my problem and I'll try to tell the story the best I can remember:
I have a 80gb harddrive on my laptop, running windows xp. NEW HARDDRIVE!
I installed EASEUS Partition Master, liked it and started changing drives, basically messing around with it which I wish I never did now. I created two Primary drives, for different OS's I thought I might put on each. I resized them, plus manipulated the logicals, etc. I pretty much tried everything with this program, to learn from it and see how it worked.
I decided to completely start over and rebuild the drive using the bootable EASEUS disk. I intended on putting 15 GB of the drive for Windows XP, the rest DATA.
First I deleted all the partitions untill there was only one unallocated file.
I rebooted computer (disk in drive of course) and began to create a drive, the program just hung there, wouldn't get past 5% of the process, if I remember correctly.
So, then I rebooted with my old trusty Windows 98 boot disk (with FDISK, FORMAT,etc already on it), I ran FDISK ...from there the process of checking the intregrity took place (which took a long time BTW) ... from there it asked if I wanted to use all of the drive or a smaller amount, I chose smaller and started to do the check of integrity all over again. I saw that this was simply wrong, since it was taking forever just to get to 1% (never happened like this before) so I shut it down and rebooted with the win98 floppy in.
Here's where I'm stuck, at the A:\>prompt (and C:\ ) I keep getting the message, "no fixed disk present", and I've tried this from, C
rompt and Arompt. The bios was naming the drive and recognizing it in the bios during boot. Now in Bios it's Primary Master: None. Keep in mind I never broke into this new laptop . Another thing I tried was booting with the EASEUS bootable CD I made. I did this twice. THe first time the drive letters came up as stars (*), no letters. NOw when I boot with this CD, I get absolutely nothing, no drive, no unallocated space and the program will let me do nothing.
As mentioned earlier: Now in Bios it's Primary Master: None. Keep in mind I never broke into this new laptop .
I don't know what to do now. Did I completely destroy this hard drive?
