A odd HDD

Camoe · 5 Apr 2010 at 21:29

I have infront of me a Fujitsu Amilo laptop. it has a 120gb WD hdd in it, it detects it in the BIOS and posts fine.. It boots up to a black screen with a mouse.. i thourght it might be corrupt..

I put the windows xp disk in, it loads the files. and then says there is no HDD present or somthing like that.. I have tried 2 hdds.. and i woul dlike some advice please :S

el Kuarlos · 5 Apr 2010 at 22:11

jumper on the hd maybe? setting in the bios? just a stab in the dark...

oap · 5 Apr 2010 at 22:17

If its a sata drive, may need to load drivers before installing xp?

Camoe · 5 Apr 2010 at 23:50

it worked fine before.. with w7, but all of a sudden after about 4 mothins it just didnt boot 1 day.... i have had XP on it before..... worked fine..

Cycrow · 6 Apr 2010 at 03:53

Camoe said:
it worked fine before.. with w7, but all of a sudden after about 4 mothins it just didnt boot 1 day.... i have had XP on it before..... worked fine..

what version of XP is it ?

depending on what SATA controller is used, some of the earlier versions of XP needed you to add the driver during the installation process.

its best to use XP with SP1 or 2 already in the installer, this usually comes with the required sata controller drivers

Camoe · 10 Apr 2010 at 02:25

@Cycrow its SP2, ill see what happenes when i get W7 Disk. and report back with the news.