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Last answer on May 19, 2009 6:07:39 am BST Pradeep, on Dec 30, 2008 2:48:56 am GMT 
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Hello,
My PC was formatted recently and the Hard Disk was detected at that time but now both the drives of the hard disk are not appearing whereas when the PC is started it shows that the hard disk has been detected. What should I do? Please help me...........

PC config. AMD Athlon 1.8 gHz, 256MB graphics card, Windows XP professional sp2, 1.50 GB RAM

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quinn, on Dec 30, 2008 4:06:54 am GMT
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What is the hard drive formated as (eg: ntfs fat fat32 hpfs ) file aslo is it a slave or master and is this what you are installing windows on or using it as a second one just for storage and is it internal or external. check and let me know then i will have further instructions. what os are you installing. is it unix based or windows i have epierience in both

   
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vinod, on Feb 4, 2009 12:44:23 am GMT

Hi
I am vinod

I installed windows into my hard disk... later i also installed linux... both were working fine for some days.
later i was not able to use windows properly and it was too slow. Used to hang always. I then removed linux
from windows using disk management.. Later when i restarted i was not able to get into windows... It was showing grub error.. Then i tried to install windows again. But windows cd itself was not booting... i tried all bios settings.. nothing worked out.. But linux cd was detected and also booting. Now only linux is in hard disk..
please guide me how to install windows and remove linux....

   
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zefenix, on Feb 4, 2009 9:43:43 am GMT

Hi vinod,
it must surely be due to the cable that links ur cpu to ur hard disk which might have been accidentally disconnected.so i would kindly advise u to make a technician check it out or at worst it may be that ur hard disk has crashed dear goodluck to u ;-)

   
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vinod, on Feb 5, 2009 5:52:32 am GMT

Thank you

   
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percy8, on Feb 6, 2009 4:23:58 am GMT

Hi vinod,
have u been able to solve the problem???

   
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vinod, on Feb 6, 2009 12:00:17 pm GMT

Hi
I asked in one of the computer show room near to my house, he told its some media problem, I dint ask about it in detail
since i had to go to work. he told he can do service. I also verified in seagate service centre. they told, if the hard disk is under warranty they replace with new one and dont do any service on hard disk.

   
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xpcman, on Feb 9, 2009 3:42:29 am GMT

You need a bootable partition management program that can remove the Linux partition. Once removed Windows will then install. This is a link to a free program that MIGHT work:

http://www.bestsoftware4download.com/...

A Linux bootable distro CD (like Ubuntu) can also be used to delete the Linux partitions.


Good Luck

   
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xpcman, on Feb 9, 2009 3:46:35 am GMT

This is a link to Microsoft instructions on removal of the Linux partitions:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/247804

   
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quinn, on Feb 9, 2009 5:52:28 pm GMT

Use hirens boot disc it it the best bootable management program

   
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 jane, on May 19, 2009 6:07:39 am BST
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Check out following resource that may help you to find solution:

http://free-tips-tricks.blogspot.com/2009/01/hard-drive-not-­recognized-found.html

   
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