Hard drive blues

[drecked]

I made the mistake of trying to delete the partitions on my hard drive with
partition magic Hmmm , I know the idea would have been to format using
my XP disc (to late) I want to know if I can resurrect it this hardrive because
I refuses to boot up starting the comp with the XP disc loaded or is it
d.e.a.d greetings drecked

 

[Tmagic650]

So the drive won't format at all?

 

[drecked]

Nope it goes as far were it say insert disc to boot up than it turns
black and nothing else happens

 

[Tmagic650]

Install it as a second drive along with a good booting C drive and format it in Windows. It is it IDE or SATA?

 

[drecked]

It's Sata Tmagic ,I get the distinct feeling there is problem with the motherboard!

the motherboard is Giga byte Ga-G33M-S2 (it's been good)

My CPU is a intel core 2 duo E6750

What do you reckon would similar in today's M/Board & CPU ?
I have not looke at it for while had this for about 6 years I think.!
the reason I'm saying this is because I put in a new hard drive a little while ago
and right in the middle of the install it gave up the ghost ! I got it going again
but I think it needs an up date what would you suggest If you don't mind me
asking regards drecked

 

[SNGX1275]

Even if the HD is dead (I don't think it is based on the information provided so far), the comp should boot off a CD. Are you sure your BIOS is set to boot off a CD before attempting a HD? On your POST screen it should say somewhere what key to press to get a boot menu, select the CD that way if you aren't comfortable in the BIOS.

Why did you need partition magic anyway? During the XP install you can wipe and recreate partitions...

 

[drecked]

yes I know SNGX1275 but i have found it's easier to do it with partition magic
right after the window in stall ! but the thing is normaly you can put in the windows
disc and reformat + install >In the bios I have the cd rom as #1 boot up .
but like i wrote in my last post I think there is something wrong with at a guess
the mother board because it stopped working right in the middle of installing
windows on a brand new hard drive so I will replace mother board & CPU and
have another go "nothing is impossible"