I have a Hitachi Travelstar 110GB SATA notebook HDD. I attempted to format the HDD with the Windows Boot CD. This HDD came from an HP notebook. Under the setup program, it detected two partitions (C:, D: Revovery) and some unpartioned space. I went to delete partition D: first, worked fine, went to delete partition C: and it started then hung. Since then I have not been able to boot the Windows setup program on the HDD, it hangs every time it says "Setup is detecting your computers current config." On my desktop, if I hot plug the drive windows will detect model and serial in device manager, but will not list it under removable drive, hd drives, or anything else. I also can not see it in disk management. All i want to do is format the entire drive, and install a fresh copy of XP with no recovery partition. I cant get anything to work. When i try to pull it up under disk management, the Logical Drive Search Engine Service fails..... I'm lost please help! Thanks in Advance

Use the Hitachi software: http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/suppo... "If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions" - Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) in Pulp Fiction

If you are 'sure' that you want to delete the Recovery partition, you can download DelPart: http://www.russelltexas.com/delpart... It will very quickly remove all partitioning on a drive.