From "zulfiqar_afd"

"hi. today suddently after burning a dvd, my laptop shut down. and afer that whenever i turn it on it gives me a blue screen and restarts. but the screen comes and goes away too fast that i cant even see what it says.

i can get to the safe mode but that does no good either. same thing happens (first 2 bars come on xp loading screen then blue screen comes)

i still have the xp install cd. but when i try the recovery or anything. it says "no hard disc's found" and leaves me the only option exit.

what do i do? "

Try first re-seating the hard drive, also remove the dvd drive and try the re-start also.

cheers ...

hmm how to do that on a laptop? have to open up the inside? but hey, in bios it sees the driver. i think its cuz my driver is sata.

You should be able to access your hard drive from the bottom, removing a cover. Then just take the drive out and put it back - re-seating process.

Removing the optical drive is a bit tricky, we might need to hunt down some guides for this.

The mentioned error is very much pointing to a bad hard drive, at 1st glance.

cheers ...

k here's what i did. a lot of ppl said like " make the sata compatible" in bios and after doin that the pc started normaly. now i'm thinkin to system restore and restore my laptop then make that bios option default.

Let us go back one step. Exactly what you were trying to do?

cheers ...

i was just burning the game i had. then left it doing it jump. then when i came back to check it, it was restarting over and over after the blue screen.
but it was asking what to do (start xp normally, safe mode...). thats what happened.
i tried safe mode and nothing, the last good known... option too but didnt change anything.
so i said let me try the system restore with xp install cd i had. but that didnt help cuz didnt see my driver. while i was searching around the internet i found some people saying "make the sata option compatible, in bios".
i tried that and hoped to solve this xp install problem. then turned out to save my computer. it started normally and i immediately used system restore.
thats what happened. but one strange thing is that, why the hell would the pc give me a blue screen from burning a dvd? and what does it have to do with the hdd?

BSOD is mostly caused by hardware and driver errors. Hard to say in your case, I can only guess that it probably was a combination of hitting a bad spot somewhere on the drive and making you lose the sata driver read on the drive (?)

This is only a wild guess.

Now that it is up, how about running a "chkdsk" on the drive?

cheers ...

XP does not have native SATA support. How those settings got changed while not doing an install is beyond me. If I understand what happened correctly? Are you running in "real" SATA now?

man i gotta say its really weird. i have fixed a lot of computers but never been facing this kinda stupid way for solution. really i mean what's the connection between dvd burning and blue screen of death. and also sata. that's really weird.
anyways i finally got a laptop ghn. i got that acer aspire 5739g. its simply amazing. i have almost never "touched" (not even use) this kinda powerful laptop in my life. i only played PES 2010 on this and it ran very smooth in high quality.

Acer does come out with some excellent models lately, at competitive price as well.

Want to give us a personal review on your new powerful machine? And pics?

http://www.notebookforums.com/my-reviews.html

cheers ...

sure i'll deal with it asap. gotta get ready for the exam i have tomorrow
also how's windows 7? is it good? cuz i have it on this machine.

I like W7 so far on one of my Sony. Still have a little bit of quirk due to some drivers, hopefully Sony will get it up to speed asap. But with the machines that come with W7 right of the bag, I heard nothing but praises.

Good lucks with the exam.

cheers ...