Problem Reinstalling XP (FDISK PROBLEMS)

[jdl_manu]

I have a Fujitsu siemens amilo xi1546 Laptop.
I went to fdisk it and deleted non-dos partition, i also deleted primary and extended partitions including logical drives.
Once done i went to create primary partition, it said my hard drive was only 10gb when its 80gb.
I put no to use maximum available space and make active and let it continue.
i put at the end use 100% and it went to 74gb.
I then proceeded to format the drive and did that, although when i went to my xp installation it said it couldn't detect my hard drive!
I was baffled as ive done the same procedure many times.
ive use test disk and scandisk ive fixed the mbr. when i went to use a third party formatting program, maxtor large hard drive formatter it scanned for drives.
IT didnt pick up my hard drive.
What should i do???? Many thanks Joel Lask

 

[Jase123]

Have you got your H.d.d set as master?

You can do this by moving the jumper on your hard drive to the pins that are for master.

Regards Jase

 

[jdl_manu]

im using a laptop... you cant change the settings.... any other s****tions?

Thanks Joel Lask

 

[boykov]

Hi

Since you tried Matrox formating utility did you make sure its a Matrox HDD?
Talking about thrird party utilities : "ultimate boot CD" have a look http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
and
this is a nice easy to use partitioning software "cute partition manager" http://www.cutepm.com/

In the "UBCD" there are some good apps for "deleting" a HDD .. something might have gone terribly wrong with your XP install !!!

cheers

 

[jdl_manu]

Tried UBCD but still no luck, what should i do????


Thanks Joel Lask.

PS... would it be easier to buy a new hdd?

 

[boykov]

You could try to chek the HDD on another pc (the UBDC is not exactly a laptop utility)... prferebly on a desktop , with an adapter like the one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811993005
at lest this way we´ll make sure where the problem lies, HDD or somwhere else..