My old laptop crashed. Trying to start it up from the begining. When i type 'fdisk', the stupid thing says, "no fixed disk present". now i am stuck, any suggestion? anyone anyone?
window me op.
window me op.
Can't boot my laptop
- Thread starter PoohBEAR
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can you hear it spin up when the computer is turned on?
is the disk detected by your BIOS?
...if not, then new hard drive time.
oh, and "crashed" can mean about 100 different things. what happened?
is the disk detected by your BIOS?
...if not, then new hard drive time.
oh, and "crashed" can mean about 100 different things. what happened?
yes it does....hard drive spins, cd rom spins, a: drive spins.....i am hitting a brick wall here 
0ctan3 said:
ok, boot off your windows cd. there should be tools to partition & format the disk from within the windows installer. (at least in win2k and xp there is)
tried formating c:..but failed. it won't let it. tried fdisk to partitiion....wont' let that either. i am thinking about instead of boooting it, i may as well BAT it. hahaahahahaaa................
btw, thanks so much for the reply
btw, thanks so much for the reply
0ctan3 said:
try a chkdsk also, if that won't work either, then it may be toast!
0ctan3 said:
Bingo. At the very least, the WinXP CD will show an "Unknown" partition which you can delete and re-create.
Otherwise you've got a hardware problem. My guess would be either the connection is loose (pull drive out and re-insert) or some of the logic on the HDD has died.
Also, like <B>0ctan3</B> suggested, go into the BIOS and make sure it can detect the HDD.
Don't bother with fdisk... it's old and even problematic at times. See if you can grab a copy of "<A HREF="http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/">Partition Magic</A>"
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