Hitachi Travelstar 5K100 40 GB Hard Drive "boot" Questions

My computer has no problem booting up from the C:/ Drive, but when I try booting with a CD from the A:/ Drive (Windows XP Home Edition), it does not find any hard disk drives installed in my computer.

...unit, and that the drive is working, you can enter the BIOS on computer startup and modify the "boot device" look in "primary boot device" for a name matching that of your hard drive (probably ...

...is the jumper setting to make this a slave the drive doesn't show slave setting. This drive has a boot virus and can't repair with windows XP disk. When I scan drive the scan gets to 39% and then ...

...from bios and it failed. tried to use the DFT progam from hitachi from the cd rom but it will not boot the cd. did what hitachi recommened on making the bootable cd with their iso but still could ...

...just use it as a data drive in a 2.5" USB 2.0 enclosure. I have the User hdd password and can now boot up the new Windows XP but I can't get rid of the harddrive password. I thought formatting the ...

...via a standard PC mother board. In this case you would have to... 1) preformat the drive 2) make it bootable in DOS 3) copy the CD contents to the drive 4) boot the target computer with the drive and ...

#1508 Bad directory buffer signature coulod only get system to boot with system retore disks (otherwise missing NTLDR error), WIN XP boot disk only gave blank screen. Reinstalled all the disks but at ...

Dell Inspiron E1505 won't boot My daughter brought me her laptop computer (Dell Inspiron E1505) to fix. It had been acting strangely and she had a friend of hers reinstall Windows XP, which seemed to ...

...Western Digital Data Lifeguard Tools CD I have tried the Killdisk recovery CD None of these will boot up. The cd drive lights up and seems to read the disk, but then shuts down and does nothing. I ...

...format your hard drive using a third party disc to erase everything on your hard drive During the boot process you will see on the screen to press a certain key to enter setup Press and hold that ...