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Old 08-04-2011, 01:38 AM   #1 (permalink)
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I have a laptop of Compaq 1GB Ram, 160 HDD, with Windows XP professional.
suddenly my laptop unable to read HDD when i am trying to reinstall XP. But when I check it from bios it pass HDD self checking and also work with Ubantu Linux. but with xp my laptop did not read hdd. please help me i want to xp again. Please...
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Old 08-04-2011, 03:27 AM   #2 (permalink)
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see if you can repair your XP using Xp boot CD. looks more like an issue with the OS.
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Old 10-04-2011, 08:42 PM   #3 (permalink)
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See if BIOS settings for HDD is native SATA or IDE. Change it to IDE then it might work.
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USe another XP CD [ of another preferably latest XP Version ]maybe //?
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