Thank you for your advice.
Well the laptop is a pretty old one and the HDD is ata.
Did you try connecting it to another system via a {,e}sata to usb adapter
cable? The most basic version is available in ebay.
I haven’t tried that yet as I don’t have the adapter with me at the moment.
But I have ordered one.
If the BIOS works fine, then were you not able to boot a live-usb session
at all?
BIOS works fine. It even detects the HDD. But I was unable to boot even
from a live-usb. After I removed the HDD from the laptop, I am able to boot
from live-usb, confirming that the issue was with HDD.
On 7 January 2013 11:25, Arjun Suresh Raji <arjun1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 3:38 AM, Mathew <mathewroy...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all, I was trying to reinstall a DELL laptop completely. I partitioned
>> the HDD using Gparted. And I proceeded to install windows 7 in a NTFS
>> partition I created. The installation hung up when I tried to delete a
>> partition, I previously created. So I forced shutdown the lap.
>>
>>
> I hope your hard disk will be either sata or e-sata.
> Did you try connecting it to another system via a {,e}sata to usb adapter
> cable? The most basic version is available in ebay.
>
>
> http://www.ebay.in/itm/NEW-ARRIVAL-USB-2-0-IDE-SATA-ADAPTOR-CABLE-2-5-3-5-HDD-CD-DVD-/170908289248?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_203&hash=item27caed88e0
>
> Try connecting and formatting it properly. I think you don't mind spending
> an extra 600 bucks to get your system up.
>
>
>> And on restarting it simply doesn’t boot from any device at all. All it
>> shows is a blank screen with cursor blinking at top-left corner of the
>> screen. The BIOS works fine, I tried changing the boot order and
>> everything. But every time I try to boot, it shows the screen with blinking
>> cursor.
>>
>
> If the BIOS works fine, then were you not able to boot a live-usb session
> at all?
>
>
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