Gigabyte Netbook HDD screw up*

[dr.grimm]

hi there to anyone wiling to help
i just got n Gigabyte M1022m booktop, it came out with windows home xp sp3...obviously i hated that idea so i tried to install win7, damn what a screw up it is now

firstly it didn't want to to install after i have selected the partition error : " setup was unable to create a new system pertitiion" WTF? it also had n EISA partition which i deleted - damn now nothing wants to work nor wil it boot up with the usb

please help

 

[Pablo]

does the thing post?

 

[dr.grimm]

yes
just get msg that said something of " insert boot able device"

 

[Pablo]

boot into bios and change boot device to usb then get lyk a small windows/linux that will fit on ur flash and see if that works.

 

[xrapidx]

Can't you boot from a linux based OS on USB?

 

[dr.grimm]

got backtrck on flash...bois set to boot from usb, also have win7 on usb (but thats the one that does not want to boot....!? linux boots fine but does not pick up /dev/hda1

 

[Pablo]

Just send back to retailer and let them sort it out.

 

[dr.grimm]

wont this little incident void my warrenty?

 

[Pablo]

hmmm...Maybe. Try connect external dvd and format with disc

 

[dr.grimm]

uuuurgh damn net books... question is is there a difference between usb en ext dvd instillation?

 

[Pablo]

dk but it's worth a shot

 

[dr.grimm]

thx man will give a shot

 

[dr.grimm]

got into diskpart.... scrwing around in there now

 

[Pablo]

try formatting

 

[FrancTheTank]

remove hard disk,
expose power terminals of hdd to ac
replace into netbook
return to retailer (" silly hard drive musta packed-up???")
done

 

[dr.grimm]

haha lol

 

[dr.grimm]

i have formatted a few times...

 

[dr.grimm]

okay this has just become a big thing...windows XP can format the drive and copy **** to it but when it restarts i get a "hal.dll" error every damn time... 3copys of xp does it. Win7 on the other hand can even format the drive but can through diskpart.exe but stil cant install to it... please any ideas??

 

[DJNgoma]

Have you tried setting the hard drive to IDE mode and not ACHI mode under the BIOS setup?

 

[dr.grimm]

the damn thing only has limited settings... only IDE config settings are HDC CONFIG set as IDE combined , only option and ATA/IDE MODE which has the setting as native and advane S3 which i cant change...