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Notebook HD + DVD drive problem

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1Dark1Sharigan1

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Hi, recently my DVD-ROM/CDRW combo drive for my R4000 stopped functioning correctly. When I put a disk in, it would light up for like a second but then stop. I think there's something wrong with the spinning mechanism. Anyway, I loosened the screws in the back of the Notebook and took out the drive, didn't really see anything wrong with it. So I put it back and then all of a sudden Windows can no longer load properly. So I did an HD self-check and it failed pretty quickly.

I didn't even touch the HD and for some reason it failed the self-test and now my Windows would crash half-way through loading, so does Safe-mode. And since my DVD drive still isn't functioning I can't put my Windows disk in to try a re-install/reformat. If I had an IDE-USB connector I would just rip out one of the DVD drives from one of my desktops and try to reinstall windows but I don't . . .

Any ideas? I'm hoping I don't need to get another HD/send the notebook to HP to have it fixed . . . also anyone know where I can get an adaptor to connect my Notebook hard drive to standard IDE?
 
So I tried booting windows from a USB Hard Drive that I had lying around (WD 80GB) and it doesn't work with my R4000. Also there's no setting in BIOS it seems that allows me to choose USB Hard Drive as a bootable device . . .

Any suggestions? I really want to try everything before I send Compaq my old DVD drive and have them send me another one . . .
 
Hi, another question. I tried booting off my USB 2.0 Hard drive and I keep getting an "invalid partition table" error? Know what may be causing it?
 
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