(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Basically my hard drive is corrupt after i formatted everything it had system reserved stuff accadently and nothing will install anymore the hard drive can be read on the computer but windows 7 or anything wont install. i really need help, thanks!

I am just letting you know, what I do. You make your own decisions.

If you have a Windows Install Cd, You could try >Install Now >x86 or x64 >Custom install> Select your drives and format them, then power off, boot from cd. This will make it impossible to boot from the hard drive. But it will write the registry from scratch.

If that does not work, just put your hard drive in your PS3 (if you have one), I took a corrupted hard drive that was failing to load Windows on a Compaq laptop, let the PS3 format, and re-write it, updated to 4.31, then put it back in the Compaq, followed the first steps I told you, and installed Windows. (Using it to type this)

This is actually what I have done in the past 48 hours. I am not saying this will work for you. Just passing along information from what happened to me.

Also remember, both of those two ideas will leave you having to install a fresh Windows, since both options are ways to format the hard drive. Only format it, if you have a way to get Windows back on there.

Hope this puts you on the right path.

alright well you see the PS3 thing sounds smart i have one and all but i don't have a controller (long story), im going to borrow one tomorrow and come back with results. In other things that i would like to tell you the hard drive turns on but it is not recognizable, if i go to windows setup, i cant even get to the terms of use, the setup just errors all the time, and i've used this disk there are no errors with the installion, i tried to install xp on it, it just wont find any sata drive on there, right now i currently found a 120gb hard disk for it but i really want my 250gb thats not working at the momment, is there anything else i can do for the time being?

If you have Windows CD, set your comp to boot from CD. It will then read the CD files for booting and not your corrupted hard drive.

Did you try just unplugging/pull out the hard drive from the comp and then placing it back in?

I recently ran into a problem with an Acer comp, where on boot, it told me it couldn't recognize my cd drive, which I was booting Windows from. I haven't solved the actual problem, just replaced the hard drive with one that already had Windows on it. When I do figure it out, I will let you know in case it helps.

Since you don't have a controller, and sounds like you already know, but you need a controller when formatting the hard drive.

If you have a spare laptop, you could always try swapping out the hard drives with each other, to see if the same problems appear.

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Just so you get the notification.

Unless he has a laptop, one cannot put a 3.5" drive in a 2.5" bay.

Any success? If you have valuable data on that 250g, placing it in the PS3 will erase that.

If you are successful with Linux, I read there are some programs that can clean/repair a hard drive that Windows is rejecting. I don't have the knowledge on Linux or even hard drives to try and help you this way. Just letting you know another way. I have a Linux Cinnamon 13 Live Cd that I use from time to time, but you might want to try installing Linux(free) onto a cd, then installing to the questioned hard drive. If Linux won't install it self, I would then rely on a shop or something to try and repair/recover it.

Are you trying to put XP or Win7 on it?