I bought a samsung 160 gb hdd about a month back from Lamington. Initially i partitioned it and set up win xp on it, which was running without any issues.
I decided to change my faulty cdrom drive with another one which is when the problems started. I started getting 'Insert boot disk to continue' errors.
Since I had a hunch that the OS which I had installed was virus infected (Kaspersky refused to install on it), I decided to format and reinstall a cleaner version of XP.
Which brings me to the problem - Windows setup shows that the drive does not have any partitions, and does not let me create any as well. I tried various utilities from Hirens Boot CD (check the images), but none of them let me create a partition.
The last one is a screenie of the Samsung HDD repair tool.
I dont see the drive name in BIOS as well.... has it gone kaput?
Any help would be appreciated.
I decided to change my faulty cdrom drive with another one which is when the problems started. I started getting 'Insert boot disk to continue' errors.
Since I had a hunch that the OS which I had installed was virus infected (Kaspersky refused to install on it), I decided to format and reinstall a cleaner version of XP.
Which brings me to the problem - Windows setup shows that the drive does not have any partitions, and does not let me create any as well. I tried various utilities from Hirens Boot CD (check the images), but none of them let me create a partition.
The last one is a screenie of the Samsung HDD repair tool.
I dont see the drive name in BIOS as well.... has it gone kaput?
Any help would be appreciated.
