Windows XP Damaged My Hard Disk ? plz help

Guys plz help me with this. I deleted all my partitions in my SATA hard drive while there was another IDE drive. I’ve been using both drives together on the same motherboard and the OS was installed on the SATA drive.
I deleted the SATA’s partitions using XP Pro CD and just when I deleted the last partition the hard drive busy indicator lit up continuously. Even after one hour it was still indicating busy and it was stuck. Then I restarted the computer and eversince then my pc wouldn’t boot and keeps showing HD is busy. It keeps happening even when the IDE Drive is present or even when I start the PC without teh IDE drive.
Can someone plz help me with this?
Answer #1
how far duz boot get
can you boot from the CD or is that what your trying to do
try another CD that won’t look at your drive, like hiren’s boot CD
if you can boot from that you may be able to repair your drive with a partition app on it
acrons partition mgr or paragon partition mgr might do the trick
Answer #2
Well, it doesn’t boot at all. I mean, the system doesn’t even show the boot screen. It only happens when the SATA drive is present. But when I remove the SATA drive and only use the IDE drive, it works normally.
BTW I got to hear that Windows XP SP3 has a major bug on creating partitions. Is is true? If it is yes then I guess that’s the reason why my Hard Drive is so screwed.
Answer #3
Well, it doesn't boot at all. I mean, the system doesn't even show the boot screen. It only happens when the SATA drive is present. But when I remove the SATA drive and only use the IDE drive, it works normally.
BTW I got to hear that Windows XP SP3 has a major bug on creating partitions. Is is true? If it is yes then I guess that's the reason why my Hard Drive is so screwed.
did you try changing the boot order to cd first? also did you change the raid settings? also you are installed xp on the ide hard drive instead of the sata one now right? It might also be that you need to flip the jumpers on the ide hard drive to master.
Answer #4
you have any way to hook the SATA drive up as a USB drive
also check your bios for a hard drive controller and see if it’s set to AHCI/RAID or IDE
try the other setting
Answer #5
Try Hirens Boot CD to sort it out ……… all the tools are there. Hopefully it will give you the option to ‘boot from CD’ when your computer starts up.
The only other suggestion I got is to install an OS on your IDE drive (with sata drive disconnected) then use a partitioning program to sort out the sata drive once you reconnect it. If you do this, make sure you set the IDE drive to ‘active’ and the sata drive to ‘none’.
Hirens is a ‘must have’ for creating/sorting out partitions in DOS.
Personally I don’t recommend using any OS CD for deleting or creating partitions …….. you don’t get enough control with the OS CD ….. Hirens if far better.
Answer #6
No man, you’ve got it wrong. The startup screen appears but the system is stuck trying to read the hard drive or something. I can’t even go to BIOS settings.
Answer #7
Cables are the first thing I would look at. See if you got spare
Answer #8
Nope I removed the SATA and plugged into other machines with different cables and it never tends to read the SATA plus my local experts say that the Circuitry of the Hard Drive gets unusually hot.
Well I guess it’s time to kiss goodbye my 2 year old SATA hard drive.