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I recently had my Gateway ML6721 freeze up ...




By rgirling on Aug 24, 2009

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I recently had my Gateway ML6721 freeze up and was asking to insert OEM supplied disk for repair. Repair didn't work was looking for missing drivers. Attempted several times to do a repair with no success and finally decided to do a destructive install and formatted the disks. Now it will install up to the option of which partition I want to install the OS to yet there are no detected partitions,''mass storage device not found''. How do I reinstall the drives if I don't have a OS?
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Aug 24, 2009

- Windows Vista Home Ultimate Hard Drives 160 GB 5400 RPM Serial ATA Hard Drive Assembly (CRU/EURP) [Part #2528238R] Support Docs Keyboards US Keyboard (CRU/EURP) [Part #8016701R] Support Docs LCD Display Panel 15.4-inch WXGA Ultrabright TFT Active Matrix Assembly (FRU) [Part #2528246R] Support Docs Memory 512 MB 667 MHZ DDR2 SODIMM Memory Module (CRU/EURP) [Part #2528157R] Support Docs Modems 56K V.92 Fax/Modem (FRU) [Part #8016419R] Support Docs Motherboard 960GL Chipset Motherboard w/UMA Graphics (FRU) [Part #4006215R] Support Docs Network Integrated Realtek 802.11b/g Wireless Networking (CRU/EURP) [Part #6008038R] Support Docs Optical Drives 8X Multiformat Dual Layer DVDRW w/DVD-RAM Assembly With Labelflash (CRU/EURP) [Part #2528249R] Support Docs Processor Intel Dual Core T2310 Processor(1.46 GHz | 533 MHz FSB | 1 MB L2)(FRU) [Part #4506447R] Support Docs Systems Gateway ML6721 Notebook [Part #1014764R]

Aug 25, 2009

- It is a SATA disk and haven't seen the message for F8 or special drivers. Gateway only supplies the OS on the recovery disk and none of the drivers, they have to be downloaded from their site. Tried installing UBUNTU to the hard drive but failed.

Aug 25, 2009

- My appologies it is ATA

Clarification Request

Posted by rachitrai16 on Aug 24, 2009

Kindly clarify which OS you are using, give me the config of your system.

Solution #1

posted on Sep 26, 2009
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jaye_ellen

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Is the new drive an IDE drive? If the drive has no partitions then I'm guessing you'd have to run FDISK on it, then FORMAT /S to put an OS on the disk. Once this is done you can use the disk. It sounds like the Master Boot Record was somehow damaged. After you have recovered the MBR it might be possible to use your repair disk.
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Solution #2

posted on Sep 18, 2009
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BuzzKent

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You don't ! Get the model of your hard drive and go to the manafacturers Web Site. There you will probably find a sofware utility that will format and partition the disc for you. No other Computer ? Use a Friends !
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