hi all This all started with the laptop crashing.I eventually was able to reformat the hard drive, by putting it in a caddy, and using my other pc to carry this out.
The hard drive is listed in the bios, but isn't seen when booting the laptop up using a floppy disk. i.e. after it boots up, and I type, c: it goes to c:, but it is in fact reading the cdrom. it will only let me access a: and c:, which as I said, is actually the cdrom.
I've looked in the bios, and there isn't anything obvious to say that it is disabled.
The hard drive is working, as I can see it in my computer, when I connect it to another pc.
When I try to boot the laptop up using a xp home edition cd, again nothing happens, because I guess it hasn't got anything to load on to.
Any ideas has to what I need to do? Thanks for any help. Terry ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq