Vista - Hard drive failure after deinstallation

Hi there!

My hard drive is not recognized anymore since I had VISTA installed.
I am not able anymore to install XP or LINUX or what ever - the messages
after starting from a Windows XP installation CD or from a LINUX DVD are the
same: NO HARD DRIVE detected ...

VISTA DVD has no problem recognizing my hard drive, not in the 32bit version
and also not in the 64bit version.

I tried already tools like KillDISK but no success - can anybody help?

Hi,

Have you run a drive diagnostic from the hard drive manufacturer yet? Is the
drive seen in the system BIOS?

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Junner2006" <Junner2006@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AE6F15C2-B162-49B7-B213-A815F1C27748@microsoft.com...
> Hi there!
>
> My hard drive is not recognized anymore since I had VISTA installed.
> I am not able anymore to install XP or LINUX or what ever - the messages
> after starting from a Windows XP installation CD or from a LINUX DVD are
> the
> same: NO HARD DRIVE detected ...
>
> VISTA DVD has no problem recognizing my hard drive, not in the 32bit
> version
> and also not in the 64bit version.
>
> I tried already tools like KillDISK but no success - can anybody help?