I have trouble in replacing the HDD for my NEC Versa S800. Previously using Toshiba MK4004GAH 1.8" HDD, after HDD failure, I've bought a replacement MK4006GAH 1.8" HDD. Nightmare begin!
I've plugged the HDD to my laptop, boot with 98 bootdisk, I could only see a cursor flashing with the harddisk light on. After around 2 mins, bootdisk start booting, seems normal. But then it said hard disk does not have a valid FAT / FAT32 partition. It seems normal too!
But actually, I've tried all the followings:
- create primary partition and format the HDD (FAT32) by WinXP before putting it into my laptop.
- create primary active partition and format the HDD (FAT32) by PQ Magic.
- tried fdisk or even fdisk /mbr after bootup with 98 bootdisk. but "error reading fixed disk" error occurred.
- tried using nec recovery cd failed.
- checked BIOS and found that the HDD can be recognized.
- tried directly install WinXP with WinXP installation disk, but failed also.
I'm sure the HDD is an health one, since the shop sales has replaced me a 2nd one. But same problem still occur.
I've ask a technician from nec and he said that my HDD is an MP3 HDD which is not a bootable one. I'm not sure whether he said is correct or not. When I view the partition information by PQ Magic, I found the HDD have Master Boot Records. But now it just cannot be accessed by any boot media.
I've found similar problem in a japanese web site, but still no hope!
See if anyone could explain.
Many thanks!