After reinstalling the disk with ghost, the hard disk disappears and the ghost cannot be started and the hard disk cannot be found.

Today, I helped my friend reinstall the operating system of a laptop (ASUS X401A), But I re-installed Windows XP Back To Winxp. Originally, because of the appearance of ghost, I felt that the re-installation system was already a piece of cake, it was about to end the battle in 30 minutes, so it started.

It started very smoothly. Go to ghost, select the. gho file of xp sp3, overwrite the original C drive file, and restart. Everything seems to be under control...

Then, the cup appears. After copying the file to the drive C, the system cannot be started when it is restarted. The original description is not clear. It probably means that the system cannot be started because of hardware changes. Then I am depressed.

The first reaction is to think that the previously used gho file is damaged, resulting in incomplete writing to the C disk, so it cannot be started, so I plan to change to another one. and re-write the gho file. So, start with a USB flash drive and enter the Win Pe system. when the gho file was copied from the USB flash drive to the hard disk, I was shocked when I found that the hard disk was gone. I never encountered a situation before, so I couldn't help but sigh that the accident was everywhere.

In the past, when I helped others reinstall the system, I also encountered various situations, such as file corruption, hard-ware compatibility, boot failure, etc. But it was the first time I saw the hard disk disappear.

The first reaction is loose wiring? Although a simple analysis at that time, I felt that the probability of being loose at that moment was very low, but I really couldn't think of other possibilities, so I only found a tool to disband my notebook, I had to re-connect the hard disk once and continue to start the system. The same result is still the case. This puts me in meditation. Is there anything else possible?

After thinking about it for a while, I have no clue. I plan to enter the BIOS to see if there is any clue. In the system settings column, I can see that the hard disk working mode is currently set to AHCI, I don't know much about the differences between AHCI and IDE, But I switched it to IDE with my luck. After saving it, I restarted it and started it into XP. Everything went back to normal.

After a simple query, it seems that AHCI is a working mode with a higher transmission rate, but it requires support from newer systems, such as win7, therefore, the hard disk working mode may have been switched over when Windows 7 was installed. After Windows xp was reinstalled, this working mode was not directly supported, so the hard disk could not be found, I would like to explain this situation to some netizens who may encounter this problem in the future.