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Computer Problems: Help!

I had a dualboot system with Vista and SUSE 11.1.
In Windows, I formatted the partitions w/ Linux. Now, when I try to start my computer, it says something like “Disk Error. Press any key to restart.” I tried to reinstall Windows, and the HD still recognizes that it has data, but it doesn’t work. Can anyone please help? I don’t want to have to get a new computer slash HD yet…

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Please help!!!!!
I had a dualboot system with Vista and SUSE 11.1.
In Windows, I formatted the partitions w/ Linux. Now, when I try to start my computer, it says something like “Disk Error. Press any key to restart.” I tried to reinstall Windows, and the HD still recognizes that it has data, but it doesn’t work. Can anyone please help? I don’t want to have to get a new computer slash HD yet…

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M. Wright offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 6 #
An Unknown Location | 11 months, 1 week ago (14 minutes after post)

I got the same message once, all though I didn’t have a dual boot system. I opened my computer up and applied gentle pressure on the cable ends connecting my hard disk and motherboard. That must have seated the cable better, because after I started up again, my hard disk worked.

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An Unknown Location | 11 months, 1 week ago (15 minutes after post)

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I got the same message once, all though I didn’t have a dual boot system. I opened my computer up and applied gentle pressure on the cable ends connecting my hard disk and motherboard. That must have seated the cable better, because after I started up again, my hard disk worked.

but it still recognizes that the HD is connected and that there is data on it…
should I still try?
Also, I’m on a laptop

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M. Wright offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 6 #
An Unknown Location | 11 months, 1 week ago (18 minutes after post)

Oh. Well the laptop hard disk should be in some external enclosure on the bottom. It’s almost like the battery, except its screwed in. I probably wouldn’t recommend tinkering with it, then. I’m not sure what you mean though when you say you reinstalled Windows and it doesn’t work. Is it the same message about your disk?

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An Unknown Location | 11 months, 1 week ago (20 minutes after post)

By reinstalling Windows, I mean I had my comp boot from disc, and installed Vista… it would make my comp have to reboot, and it would just go right back and boot from CD… apparently forgetting that I just installed the **** thing 2 minutes ago!!!!! If when it restarts I take the disc out, it gives me the error message!

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An Unknown Location | 11 months, 1 week ago (22 minutes after post)

I am not sure what the problem is then.

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An Unknown Location | 11 months, 1 week ago (23 minutes after post)

Well, I’ll try the loose connection fix… but anyway, thanks

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An Unknown Location | 11 months, 1 week ago (39 minutes after post)

I formatted my whole (I think whole) drive… and it’s installing now… I
b> really /b> hope it works…

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An Unknown Location | 11 months, 1 week ago (47 minutes after post)

nope! it could be eBay time

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An Unknown Location | 11 months, 1 week ago (1 hour, 29 minutes after post)

have you tried starting in safe mode? you know, like when it looks for errors that need to be truncated, and sometimes gets rid of viruses? also, what about defragmenting?

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An Unknown Location | 11 months, 1 week ago (1 hour, 29 minutes after post)

cause I had a problem where the disk drive didn’t even show up, and I defragmented it, and the somputer saw it right after.

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An Unknown Location | 11 months, 1 week ago (1 hour, 45 minutes after post)

small problem- it won’t even let me get that far

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An Unknown Location | 11 months, 1 week ago (1 hour, 53 minutes after post)

it doesn’t really recognize that windows is on the drive
but when I go to install windows, it shows the partitions,
and that there is data there…

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An Unknown Location | 11 months, 1 week ago (7 hours, 41 minutes after post)

mine was doing that for a while. it took an hour to start up. how long have you left it?

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An Unknown Location | 10 months, 4 weeks ago (1 week, 3 days after post)

some computer’s aren’t compatible with hd

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