Acer laptop not seeing HDD

[pcfresh]

Hi
I have a problem with a Acer travelmate 5720G. One of my friends powered of his laptop by pressing the power button and now it doesn't see the hdd after post. I originally thought that it was the hdd, but Ireplaced it with a new one and still the same result. Tried to sue the recovery cd's created when he bought the machine but gets to 96% and then gets this error message "restore failed reason 0xf0000005". Also tried installing XP pro slipstreamed but still not able to see hdd.

System specs
Intel core 2 duo 1.8Ghz
1Gb DDR2
160Gb Samsung HDD

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

Dave

[caperjack]

ok,are you trying to do the restore/winxp slipstream on the old drive or the new drive .

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=524480&st=0&p=588167144&#entry588167144

[pcfresh]

I have tried to do it to both drives with the same result.
Dave

[pcfresh]

Well have fixed the problem....good old Ubuntu. There seemed to be a problem with Windows seeing the sata hdd after post. I had this once before where a hardware problem stopped windows in its tracks but linux found a way around the problem.
Dave

[caperjack]

good to here ,that was going to be my next suggestion actually !

[RLHennig]

Same, I was going to tell you to try loading a LiveCD or GParted or something