hd not recognized wtf plz help
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Mad Skillz




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PostPosted: Wed, 29th Sep 2004 07:51    Post subject: hd not recognized wtf plz help
yeah ok this is pretty wierd.. not sure exactly what forum this should go but whatever..here he go. well i had an old laptop lying around so i though i would install linux on it. so i dled mandrake10.0 burnt it. it installed all the files fine, then got to the part where you set the root password. i set it and hit ok. then the little grey box in the center where u type info turned all grey. it stayed like that for over an hour. so i turned the thing off. now when i turn it on the computer doesnt recognize the hd.. i had the bootable partition magic floppydisk so i popped that in to try to format it but it dont recognize the drive.. i dunno why the hell this is happening.. ok so what do i need to do now to fix this, plz heeelp me
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razor1394
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PostPosted: Sun, 3rd Oct 2004 10:21    Post subject:
Sounds to me like the HD is dead. Check the motherboard bios configuration dialog. If it's not shown there and on the boot screen it's surely dead.
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