NON DETECTION OF HARD DRIVE

NO IDEAS, very sad right? put the problem in yahoo!answers too, it will be helpful

You cannot power up your computer from a USB port. You can remove the hard drive and use a USB hard drive adapter to hook up a CD or hard drive and have it read by another computer.

If it's a 250GB, the recovery DVD needs to format this drive (insofar as I know, Toshiba's recovery disks never uses quick format) - so .... yeah! It'll take a couple of hours just to prep the hard drive before the actual recovery imaging begins, and that's assuming that the hard drive formatted without errors.

If the hard drive has errors (bad sectors), it really could stretch out the total time. I've done a recovery on a hard drive that contained 100MB worth of bad sectors and it took an entire two days to put an image on it. Why'd I do it? I justed wanted to know how long it was gonna take...

Disk error hints that you are missing OS (Operating System) such as Windows. Which can be caused by several reasons: defective HD controller, defective hard drive, damaged partition, corrupt MBR, etc.

The clicking noise is an indication, your hard drive is trying to spin the motor to either spin the drive cylinder or to move the head. In can be normal or it can be damaged.

Try booting from Windows CD/DVD or Hiren, then try to access the drive. If you are unable to access the drive after booting from CD/DVD, then try to format it. And if still unsuccessful, then you have defective hard drive and will need to be replaced.

goto my computer, where u find the hard drive it should be there or goto properties and scan for new hard ware you will find it there

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i am afraid that u will have to install windows XP again :(

You can try to either repair windows or the best option is to reinstall everything back on the System.

And if does not help. Please get ur Hard drive checked.

are you booting form cdrom first????

It may be because of your hard disk damage or OS problem. Try to install a fresh copy of XP from a cd. boot from XP cd and install . 

Ooops! Hate it when I delete necessary stuff !!! Go into the device manager and uninstall the optical drive (cd/dvd drive), then reboot. It should find the drive and reinstall it. If it doesn't, then do a hardware search from the device manager. If it still doesn't find it, then do a system restore to a point before deleting the files.