Hello,
I´ll try to make this long story short....
- A few weeks ago my FS Amilo Si1520 ran out of battery because it wasn't plugged in (nothing spectacular)
- When I restarted it, windows didn't start but a menu came up with different choises of fail-safe mode. Non of them worked.
- My first aim was to rescue my files so I tried different recovery tools. With knoppix linux boot-disk i got a hold of my hddr and could copy all the files to a USB-drive.
- I then tried to reinstall Windows XP Home Edition with my recovery disk. The installation goes on for a few minutes but then it stops an says that it can't find any hard drive (eventough the drive was found both in knoppix and in BIOS)
- I tried some hardware diagnostic tools on boot-CD, but finally I gave up and bought a new hard drive. A WD SATA 160 GB, 2,5" instead of my old that was the same but 120 GB.
- The problems remain. The HDDR is found in BIOS, but not when trying to install windows. I tried with the one that came with the latop and also with a windows XP i downloaded, same roblem.
Does anyone know more things to try? Thankful for any help.
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