Thread: Not recognize the hard disk Compaq mini lap CQ10-

I have a mini lap CQ10-compaq 120la of which ran a wonderful office xp but as outdated brought uninstall it, then I asked for a restart to finish the uninstalling.

And never reloaded. Turn on the lap works hard, the fans and nothing. Hard disk LED flashes when turned on but then turns off, I made a bootable usb with xp to try reinstall and cannot find the hard drive, did a live bootable cd to rescue data and finds no hard disk, but in the bios if the hard disk appears. Spend all night with this machine and I have not been able to nail him, finally download the driver of DSCO hard from the hp website, and give me surprise you to download a. exe, how to run a. exe if windows does not load?

Converted the good. Exe iso and that turned it into bootable iso from a usb. I can load the file but do not know how to install it from comado line ... leei hard all night and nothing stays in grub> install sp46160.exe and mark me error 1. If they have a solution for this problem is the much.....

Even though I'm almost certain it is, the hard disk drive as it is sata.

If u most likely case is that the Cd Live not recognize the drivers for Sata HDD You tried to start the OS just to Safe Mode? Pressing the F8 key?

If you cannot access or to the Windows menu: You have several options, try to shit an OS Ubuntu Live last existing version 10.10 and displayed if the drive is detected and thus can access it .. You can also perform a repair of windows os with the same installation cd and not suffer any data loss if you do not have a eject button usb through....