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Im sure this has nothing to do with the HDD being fried but here goes. FYI im using an Acer T3238 Laptop and i have my recovery disc burmed into dvd.

I wanted to reformat my computer. Before i actually put my recovery disc, i used my brother’s win xp cd to help partition my HDD into one c drive.(theres of course this one important partition i cannot delete) After doing so, in goes recovery disc. The formating and file copy process went fine. The disc even ejects and the message "restore complete" appears. Upon clicking ok the system reboots. Unfortunately the following appears:

PXE-E61: Media Test Failure, Check Cable
PXE-MOF: Exiting Broadcom PXE ROM
Operating System not found

I believe the pxe thingy is due to the network boot. I’ve disabled it. The only problem now is the OS not found. I’ve place in the cd once again and it copied files(but i think its overwriting) and says ‘restore complete’ again. Yet again OS not Found.

2 words,PLEASE HELP!!! Thanks lots people =(

hmm these two threads both suggest that there’s something wrong with the connection between your motherboard and hard drive:

http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread6227.html

http://www.nocrash.com/ncbbs/msgs/3576.shtml

The second one has some people doing a DIY fix, forcing the hard drive to sit in it’s bay tighter.

You might want to have a read through. Good luck!

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