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Gism0 Posts 2 Registration date Wednesday 25 November 2009 Status Member Last seen 26 November 2009 - 25 Nov 2009 à 20:08
Gism0 Posts 2 Registration date Wednesday 25 November 2009 Status Member Last seen 26 November 2009 - 26 Nov 2009 à 02:40
Hello,
I m trying to help a friend of mine. She brought me a fujitsu siemens laptop (amilo pro) with a destroyed hard disk (samsung hm060Hi or something). I bought a new one to install windows xp on it ( samsung hm160HI) but windows installation doesnt recognise it. i ve tried installing the drivers of the hd but i guess i didnt manage to. also i ve tried putting it on an external case to use it as a usb drive to format it but windows didnt recognise it either. no volume was given just a mass storage driver installation. is the disk broken?or i just need a bit of help?!:)

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kamli4u Posts 46 Registration date Wednesday 11 November 2009 Status Member Last seen 1 July 2011 20
25 Nov 2009 à 20:29
Dear

try it seems that bad clusters in it. pls run NDD or similar to repair it. if not work that means your disk is broken.


thanks
Gism0 Posts 2 Registration date Wednesday 25 November 2009 Status Member Last seen 26 November 2009
26 Nov 2009 à 02:40
well.........ok some details i left behind is that its a samsung sata 2.5" hard disk. model HM160HI.........i ve run a diagnostic tool that i found on the samsung website (ESTOOL) and evertything was ok. windows xp installation didnt recognize the disk neither windows 7 installation. i ve tried loading the drivers of the disk from a cd or a usb during the installation but nothing was workingand i m not sure that i ve found the right drivers.