I’ve been fighting with a little netbook for a few days – it’s a Compaq Mini 110c.
Here’s the story…
It was virused right to death & after a couple days I still couldn’t get everything removed to the point where I could at least get on the Windows Update site.
It didn’t have a restore partition, just a restore point from the factory installation (it was using Roxio BackOnTrack, not Windows, for restore points) – well, the restore points were virused also.
I finally decided to download the recovery software from HP & do a clean install – one problem – the image was Linux, not XP. So, I go about making a bootable USB thumb drive with the XP installation files on it because, as we all know, netbooks don’t have CD/DVD drives (that drove me crazy for a day until I discovered a nice little utility to do it proper). Okay, here I am, all set to install XP from the USB thumb drive….it boots to the drive….the whole setup process begins….it gets to the point where it’s going to copy the setup files to the hard drive and ZAP!
It doesn’t detect the HDD (WD1600BEVT SATA)
I looked all through the BIOS & I can’t find anywhere to set the HDD type – it just detects it I guess.
I have booted to a Windows 98 USB drive & ran FDISK, it sees the drive & let me repartition it…I made it active….still no joy.
Anybody have any ideas?