My laptop comes with an external drive but when I bought it from the person they did not give this to me.
The hard drive was fried so I bought a new one the only problem now is that I need to format it without a disk drive or floppy.
I hooked up my laptop hard drive to my desktop with an adapter and formatted it on my desktop with windows xp pro, Put it back into my laptop booted up and now I get an error message [a disk read error].
I can still access bios but that is all.
Any feed back would be greatly appreciated thank you.

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Originally Posted by Acefsj

My laptop comes with an external drive but when i bought it from the person they did not give this to me.
The hard drive was fried so i bought a new one the only problem now is that i need to format it without a disk drive or floppy.
I hooked up my laptop hard drive to my desktop with an adapter and formatted it on my desktop with windows xp pro, Put it back into my laptop booted up and now i get an error message [a disk read error].
I can still access bios but that is all.
Any feed back would be greatly appreciated thank you.

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How many partitions in your laptop.

I believe 1 but I will take a look I am going to try and formate it again with the desktop and I will make sure there is only 1 partition.

You it was 1 partition.
I re formated and this time I get to a blue page saying their was a problem loading windows and the computer had too shut down so their would be no damages