[Lord Nikon]

Originally Posted by vbnmu

I have been holding off for a month from posting this, preferring to try out every possible solution but hey, the Elonex is literrally doing my head in:

A family member asked if I could fix his elonex webbook after the screen got smashed (we shall call this webbook X). He was in possession of second one that had errors on the HDD (Webbook Y).

So my plan was simple, swap HDD on X into Y, reinstall windows. Simple.

Except, HDD X was busted as well. So I bought a Tosh mk1252gsx, the cheapest 2.5" I could find on ebuyer.
I then tried to install xp on it through an sd but it wouldn't pickup the HDD during the install, which I believe is due to it being a SATA.

I downloaded all the drivers from the elonex site, slip-streamed it, went through the process of putting it on an SD again but no luck.

Managed to get the ghost image from HDD Y and mounted it but no luck. Tried various combinations without much luck, including linux.

So now I got a deal on a portable DVD drive, burnt W7 on dvd and tried but, my luck I burnt x64. Didn't work. Used my last dvd to burn x86, went as far as the 'select partition' page but no further. I did read somewhere that W7 played along with SATA unlike XP that was released before SATA became so common but that didn't seem to work.

I have now spent a damn lot of hours trying to fix it, spent some money on a new HDD, without much success.
I feel I have tried everything and simply want to give it back but I just hate the feeling that I willingly took on a task but cannot complete it.

Can anyone suggest anything please?

Thank you all for reading through this lengthy post!

Go into the bios of the netbook and change the SATA mode from AHCI to Compatible. then try again with XP