Hdd is not detected error 2100

It is telling you that there is a problem with your hard drive. If you know how to get to your bios screen and have a recovery CD you should be able to restore it. That is IF the hard drive is in fact not defective. Otherwise you will need to to take it to someone who does computer repair and either let them replace the hard drive or depending on your ability do so yourself or purchase another laptop

This model laptop came with a 60Gb hard disk and if you installed a much larger capacity hard disk then the BIOS cannot detect this hard disk.
For the BIOS to detect a large hard disk a BIOS upgrade is required (if there is one available) Check the HP/Compaq WEB site to see if there is a BIOS upgrade.
If not the try a 120Gb or smaller capacity hard drive.
As an alternative -
You can keep the existing hard drive in your laptop and use an external USB hard drive to store your data.

Please enter into BIOS and check whether the Harddisk is detecting or not. If not detecting, try to remove the hard disk and reinsert into laptop. check it.
If HDD is detecting, press F8 to enter to Safe mode after power on laptop. if safe mode is not working.. reinstall/repair the existing operating system with your OS cd.

Hi chetan5karma,

I see that you are having issues with you Thinkpad R61 Laptop getting an Error 7, PXE-e61 Media test Failure.

I Believe the Error that you are receiving means that the Hard Drive in your Laptop is not responding anymore or is not anymore fixable, the error that your mentioned states that your "HDD" Hard Drive needs to be replaced on your Laptop there is no other way to fix this error you Hard Drive is already undetected and most probably not bootable anymore.

You can google pxe-e61 there will be many possible causes but all fall in replacing the Hard Drive, the only option your can try with this concern is removing your Hard Drive and reconnecting it back again, this is to see if the Laptop will detect the Hard Drive again or not.

Also you can try reformatting the Hard Drive using a Windows Installation Disc to see if it will be detected by Windows.

I hope this helps.

Thank you for choosing Fixya,

mvincentc

OK the only shot you got is to geta USB to SATA/IDE converter dongle, connect to another PC's USB port. Hopefully, you will be able to read it. Otherwise still plugged in you may be able to use recovery software and get you DATA back. Recover my files is one,
http://www.recovermyfiles.com/
Other freeware data recovery software GL.
http://www.freebyte.com/filediskutils/

i think the problem is with ur SATA HDD. To confirm, try another SATA HDD on ur mother board and see if the problem persists

I will advice you to exchange the HDD with someone or with brand new one as it seems to be problem with drivers of the sata.

Your harddisk is not detected proeprly in bios .
For that when you power up the computer press F1 or F2 or "del" key to enter in bios .
Then check your sata option is disabled in bios .
Then save settings then your harddisk is detected properly.

smtimes d RAM didnt support the harddisk can u tell me wats ur computer RAM......
if it is between 500MB-1GB then it is suitable for it if it is lower, than it will not support ur harddisk....
n also smtimes harddisk quality can also cause error.....
it should be same as older one.......

kiran,
i thought you have SATA interface, in that case your XP will not be able to access your HDD. But now as you told there is no option for SATA means you don't have SATA interface in your motherboard and the problem might be in your HDD.

1. So, check out your HDD connection from motherboard and try to install again if no luck then do the following step.
2. If you have important data/files on your HDD make a backup copy. Then make try to delete all partition and make new partition, then proceed further installation OR if you have recovery disk try to use it to recover your system as factory setting.

Thanks
Iqbal