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waynegohl

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setup did not find any hard disk drives installed on your pc.

make sure any hard disk drives are powered on and properly connected to your computer, and that any disk-related hardware configuration is correct.
this may involve running a manufacture-supplied diagnostic or setup program.

will a reinstallation of windows xp solves this?
 
my wife has a compaq evoN620c laptop and was playing games on it and the thing jammed up and the only way to get out of the game was to pull the plug now the thing says, Nn-system disc or disk error replace and strike any key when ready. we were running windows xp
 
windows re-install won't help. If the hdd's don't appear in the POST windows won't see it.
 
if you still have a warranty take it in. if you don't convince a friend to plug your HDD into his laptop to see if it still works. Otherwise remove the battery and go to sleep, maybe it will work tomorow morning
 
this is a second hand laptop i bought for her from our computer guy my boss knows so i have no paperwork and i could take it back to him but all her paperwork is on here so wanted to try sort it out for her, but anyway i will shut it down.

thanks for the help.
 
Please be specific as to what the problem is. When you start up your computer what is the error message you get? Does it say, "can not detect hard drive"?

If it does go to your BIOS settings by pressing the delete key on start up and check your boot up load order. Make sure it is on the specified hard drive. you could try saying load default settings but this could be dangerous for inexperienced users as some settings will drastically effect load order and other devices.

The hard drive could have a bad sector or partition. You would either have to take it out and do a full format in windows on a another computer via usb or ide and reinstall windows on it once you connect it back.
 
waynegohl said:
setup did not find any hard disk drives installed on your pc.

make sure any hard disk drives are powered on and properly connected to your computer, and that any disk-related hardware configuration is correct.
this may involve running a manufacture-supplied diagnostic or setup program.

will a reinstallation of windows xp solves this?
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are you trying to install XP onto a SATA drive? If so you might need to load some drivers for that SATA controller first. XP does not recognize all SATA controllers. Go to the website and see if there is a driver for the SATA controller. Only problem is you have to load it from a Stiffy disk.
 
morning Gary.

i don't know anything about sata or whatever and as this machine does not have a stiffy drive i cannot even do that.

what will happen if i say restore defaults will i lose something like one of the other posts says?
 
i am i the blue screen after i pushed F10 but there is no BIOS option to check. i know if i do the same thing on my desktop i can see hdd and cd ....

ps. good morning to you too greg.
 
Put a XP CD in your DVD Drive, boot from it enter recovery mode and run chkdsk.
 
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