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Replying to Computer gurus - help!

mauii:
Hello, I'm in need of a little help. Its a bit long, but If you know your computers.. PLEASE!!! help!

This morning Windows XP decided it didn't want to boot when I was starting up. Now this isn't the most unusual situation in the world. The problem is a bit more puzzling.

The computer wont start in safe mode, so a restore is out of the picture. The last known good configuration command isn't much help either. So, the next thing i've tried doing is booting off an external harddrive that has a working OS on it, in hopes of runing the internal as a slave and trying to fix the problem... My bios is supposed to be able to boot from usb drives - but surprise.. no luck. So, next thing i've tried is booting from the xp dvd and using the recovery console... but heres the baffling part... it can't detect a hard drive. In fact, I couldnt re-install windows if i wanted to, because it doesnt see a hard drive when i attempt to do even that. So one might conclude a hard drive failure... but the windows xp boot up splash screen still pops up when you attempt to start (before it blue screens / automatically restarts), the drive gets warm, and you can hear it spinning.. so i believe its still working.

Normally at this point, id pop in a different hard drive, and perhaps try running the one with the problem externally. But this laptop is an HP and has some lame proprietary stuck on adapter on the hard drive so it doesnt fit standard IDE.

anyway.. HELP!

Thanks very very much in advance.

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