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March 20, 2008 at 11:48 AM
asher2jk

Windows XP setup cannot access the disk

by asher2jk . Updated 16 years, 6 months ago

My hard disk has crashed.. have left all hopes to salvage any info.. all that i am concerned with right now is to get the HDD working.. the BIOS detects the drive… its a SP0802N Samsung HDD (80 GB)…
When i tried to install a new copy of XP.. came to the last stage where you have to select the a partiton where you want to install the window files.. there it gave me the prompt windows can’t access the disk where it shows the partitions.
Any key that i press would restart the computer.
What can i do to the HDD back to life.. am clueless now.. any help would be very helpful 🙂 Thanks

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