Hi all,
I am repairing a friends laptop but have run into some problems!!... when trying to reformat it, using ME Boot up floppy all was going well it let me reset the parameters ok but then at the A:\ command i can type format C: it does the usual thing all data will be lost it starts to format but at 2 percent i get the dreaded error message not ready then underneath format terminated, i have tried it a few times now and sometimes get other error messages which say no fixed drives detected, aborting format, i have tried chkdsk which runs and reports no errors, the bios recognises the hard drive and allows me to change the boot sequence, however since i started getting the errors i have noticed in the bios under security tab it now sometimes says HDD frozen which can be changed if i set a user password then the HDD password states clear but it still makes no difference on the format, it also reports no cd rom drivers found! i have not got another laptop to try the drive in otherwise it would be simple enough to check if its a dead HDD so peeps if anyone has any idea's on this problem i would appreciate your input
I am repairing a friends laptop but have run into some problems!!... when trying to reformat it, using ME Boot up floppy all was going well it let me reset the parameters ok but then at the A:\ command i can type format C: it does the usual thing all data will be lost it starts to format but at 2 percent i get the dreaded error message not ready then underneath format terminated, i have tried it a few times now and sometimes get other error messages which say no fixed drives detected, aborting format, i have tried chkdsk which runs and reports no errors, the bios recognises the hard drive and allows me to change the boot sequence, however since i started getting the errors i have noticed in the bios under security tab it now sometimes says HDD frozen which can be changed if i set a user password then the HDD password states clear but it still makes no difference on the format, it also reports no cd rom drivers found! i have not got another laptop to try the drive in otherwise it would be simple enough to check if its a dead HDD so peeps if anyone has any idea's on this problem i would appreciate your input
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