Hi, my daughter as a samsung x10, started having problems so i tried bleaching the hard drive , that would not finish it just crashed at the end, so i found the windows xp rescue disc after plenty of searching put that in , it starts running the disc then a message comes up saying cannot detect hard drive. any help would be welcome.

Use fdisk and / or format from command prompt. Easy and no fuss. gl

You have one of two problems. Either your operating system crashed and you will need to get windows reinstalled on the computer or your hard drive crashed.
If the hard drive crashed you will need to replace the hard drive first and then also reinstall windows.
In both cases it is needed to reinstall windows.
This is probably something a computer technician should take care of.

Too late! Hard drive has crashed.
Fit a new hard drive and load your recovery disc or system disc.

Hi, you need to ensure your hard drive is set up correctly! To install XP first press the F1 key during bootup, select the primary boot device (your external drive) in BIOS, save changes and reboot, allow files to be installed, but when finished, select delete operating system, partion hard drive and reformat, allow system to reboot, then commence new installation of XP. If your problem persists it is most likely a bad section on your hard drive, and will need replacing.
Hope this helps

You are probably correct in thinking it a motherboard problem, its sounds like the disk controller on the motherboard id faulty.
There are a huge range of motherboards to choose from.
The mounting holes on the motherboard will match the desktop mounting plate, these are standard configurations.
Stick with the well known brands and with the functions that suit your requirements.
My choice of brands are Gigabyte, Intel, MSI.
If you are into gaming and video editing etc. go for a motherboard without a built-in graphics card and purchase a separate high end graphics card.

Hi
My hard drive also crashed and I installed a Samsung SP2514N 250 GB and I found it very good.
Give it a try.

Hello,

Try connecting the drive to another pc with a usb adapter, create a partition and format it. Then put the drive back in the vaio and reinstall windows. This should fix the problem.

Hi, I think that your os has been crashed. So insert your disk and boot your system and check that your BIOS will boot from CD (Boot preference - CD ROM). And install a fresh copy of your os. Let me know the result.

if your HD cannot be detected anymore..then there would be 90% chance that your data's cannot be retrieve. however, if it is still functional as a secondary drive but the partition is damage..try using FileScanvenger to retrieve the data.

Help me, I have same problem I thing..
my problem is that,
I have samsung x10 series laptop so I want to install win xp or pro to my laptop...
when I started to install, I chose boot cd rom and it reads from the cd rom and win xp or pro installed after some times. at thşs tiem my problem is starting, after installation, when   Windows is starting  (the loading bar is shown) , at the loading process, it stops  and I wait for long time, anything does not happen. I restart the windows, then again problem is happen. I know that ı have to make changing in bios options. when I made the changing, it was worked but now I could not remember what was the changing...
please help me....