sukanat
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hard disk failure? - 2007/07/27 21:01
I have a new notebook with a 300GB hard drive. It has Windows XP, and as my son has a game that runs only on Vista, I decided to create a new partition for Vista. I downloaded and used Partition Magic, as I thought it would be safer and easier than using the windows management tool. I also believed it would mean I wouldn't need to worry about backing up my files. However, once I'd run the wizard to create a new partition for a new OS, the computer failed to boot from the hard drive. When I set it up to boot from the CD, it started to install windows but then stopped with the error message that it couldn't find a hard drive. I tried using a windows recovery boot disk, and this could only find a hard drive of 100MB. When I enter the RAID setup it seems to state that the disk is fine. How can I tell if the hard drive is really shot and whether I need a new one or whether the problem is something else?
thanks a lot if anyone can help.
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