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    Windows installation cannot recognize my hard drive

    A friend of mine brought me a fujitsu siemens laptop (amilo pro) with a Samsung Sata HM060II hard drive that was not logging into windows xp. I ve put it into a usb case and run a virus scan on it that cleared the virus and the disk was working properly. When i logged in windows i ve notice so many spyware that i tried to format the drive immediately.On my friends laptop the win xp installation disk wouldnt recognise any hard disks so i ve tried installing it on the drive as an external usb drive from my laptop.The installation failed with a blue screen for hardware failure. I bought a new hard drive (Samsung SATA HM160HI) that i partitioned and formatted. ( primary, NTFS). Neither XP or Windows 7 installation recognize it. i can work on it from my laptop as an external usb drive. i ve run several diagnostic tools from my friends laptop with a boot cd and every software recognize it, give me details, scan it for errors. The bios even recognize it.
    I need to install an OS on it!
    any ideas or suggestions? i ve been working for a week on it. its getting exhausting.

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    Re: Windows installation cannot recognize my hard drive

    In the My Computer icon then click the button and it bites right where it says manage. In the Device Manager on the disc, you should see a SATA controller. If the first note the BIOS that the SATA is in IDE mode if you do not start and if the second or larger is a ****ing virus or damage your system and only ps pc tools recovery DOS as it could restore. On the other hand if you connect to another pc as a slave does not let you access it.

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