Hi - There is a disc in the hard drive and it won't come out.

Perhaps mbr of hard disc needs repair..cause of a power interruption..
Boot to your windows discs, and there should be an option to enter command prompt.

you can try a simple fix to the MBR within cmd...
bootrec.exe /fixmbr

If the hard drive failed you will first need to replace it with a working hard drive. One that is done, power on the computer with the recovery disc is the drive and enter setup. It should say something like press F9 or F10 for Setup. Look through the menus for "Boot Order", make sure your CD/DVD drive is above hard drive. Save the changes and reboot, you should get a message "Press any key to boot to disc" or something similar, do so, and follow the prompts to re-install windows.

I don't understand this term: "choose either dvd or usb menu". Do you mean instead ""choose either dvd or cd menu? I've used many usb hard drives and I've never seen such a "menu".

It' most likely that your hard disk drive is defective. Try to boot from a CD\DVD disc, if it does, you have a problem with your hard drive.

Try using your pc to format x box by hooking it with a usb cable.
Open windows and right click my computer.Then click manage,select disc managment under storage heading.Wait for the window to load.
Then look for unknown or not initialized disc.Right click left square area then click initialize disc.

Select mbr then ok.Windows should lable the disc unallocated.

Then right click the right rectanguler area of the x box hard drive and click new partition.Or format.

check bios setting n check hard rivers iz there if u can show hard driver the problem iz hard disk and cchang it

Technically, YES, the hard drive can be formatted as an external (with the appropriate equipment) on your laptop (if there are still files on it, you may even be able to extract them from it) but it still won't be bootable because it does not have an operating system on it.

That would be the part where you need the recovery disc. Windows setup programs from these boot discs already have the format utility so if there aren't any files to extract from the drive, you can skip to reinstalling Windows on the desktop and formatting it in the process.

Bottom line is that you need a Windows installation disc to make the hard drive bootable again, regardless of where you format it.

Try swapping usb cables if possible. You can also try swapping enclosures but this will void your warranty.

See if it shows up in Windows Disk Management if so then you may have just lost the partition you can try to recover lost partitions with Testdisk its free http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

It may be your best bet is to contact Lacie support. http://www.lacie.com/support/support_manifest.htm?id=10177

If you bought a new hard drive (meaning the internal hard disk), it won't have anything on it. If you just install it and try booting your computer, there won't be an operating system to load. The BIOS (the operating system built into the motherboard) is set up to try loading the operating from connected devices in a certain order. Usually it tries the optical drive first, then the hard drive, and finally it tries to boot over a network connection. The media test failure message means it tried that last resort and still didn't find an operating system, and it's telling you that maybe you have a bad network cable.

You'll need to reinstall your operating system and applications so that the computer will start normally. If your computer came with a restore disc set, or you made a set yourself, you'd use those. If you don't have restore discs, you can do a fresh installation of Windows from CD. You need to find the disc for the version that came installed on your computer, since you'll need to use the product key from the sticker on the bottom. Drivers and utility programs you can download from Compaq's (HP, actually) support and drivers website.

Once you've got a bootable Windows system on the new drive, you won't get that strange message any more.

Hi!
i dont know if your drive is dead , but try to connected to an Other Pc with different System (windows Xp Or 7 ) and see if it work try to formate it , but if he didn't work that's mean is dead ,

good Luck