Re: SA80 cannot find DVD - RAM drive

A client gave to a backyard tech because the DVD player was not working. Apparently, he got working and formatted and reinstalled the computer - thus leaving without a driver. In addition, it has formatted wrong, messed up the MBR a bit.

In any case, I've completely wiped the HARD drive and got to halfway through the installation of windows XP Pro before I realize that I was installing the wrong for his key. Cancelled, and the installer threw a bit of one-piece - so when I got back home, he tried to start the setup of pro at the disk - it was just a big mess.
Issues and blue screens. Then I jumped in Vista and used the disk to format the computer (under Vista read a driver error with regard to the discs and hard drives has not bothered to install it and I simply used the recovery console and the words "Format C:").

And now the DVD player does not work yet. Anyone with bright ideas that will save me an aneurysm?
It is not displayed under BIOS (it's a laptop, so it could not be supposed to.),
And when I changed the boot order to go drive it jumps directly to the disk drive - what is more a BONE and so informs me that BootMGR is missing. Through PXE, and he can't get the reader either.

The drive seems to be spinning, but then faints.

I don't know how the previous technology solved. I could tear this laptop apart looking for a broken cable, but I doubt that's the problem.

Info; Satellite A80 1.86, 1 GB RAM, 60 GB HARD drive. disc is a DVD-RAM. And it's a P006andsoonandsoforth.

So, any ideas?

> Update - got the drive working again. I'm going to operate under the theory that the drive is sensitive and that the owner must have hit it on some - as I have been set a little wiggle.

Great! Thanks for this feedback

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