Advent laptop hdd install

[megamart99]

has anyone had this problem before i have an advent 7011 laptop which has a problem on the hdd side,when i fdisk hdd all ok when i format hdd always says has bad sectors removed hdd put into any other laptop formats perfect everytime also if i put win xp in and boot from to install always gets to 100% format and then fails (fat or ntfs) at the moment i cannot get any o/s to install i have upgraded bios to latest version.i have even tried to install a drive overlay it seems to fail everytime it writes to mbr,on fat 32 it scandisks after and always says fat table currupt changing to fat table 2 still fails.i tried to format as fat 16 today and that formated correct with no bad sectors i then managed to get win me to install great but i found the ide controllers flaged out and no cdrom tried installing ide drivers but comes up blue screen cannot write to c, i have installed 3 hdd's all say same fault taken hdd out laptop install in pc all works fine . anyone got any ideas ? im thinking now hardware fault ? or even ide lead fault.

Been messing today and found i can fdisk as fat 16 and format fine with no bad sectors reported also managed to install win me ok but i cannot fdisk / format as fat 32 or ntfs also on fat 16 sometimes when trying to access mbr it fails when writing to c, i have not got new ribbon but will try when able to find wiring and ribbon on this laptop is all wires in order ie 1=1 2=2 3=3 i was wondering if ribbon is correct one or faulty,any how thank you for the replys this is strange never had this problem before hope to here from you soon

[AlienDyne]

Same thoughts here. Probably a hardware fault. Most likely the motherboard.

[Garak]

I'd say either controller issue, or ribbon fault. If you can get your hands on a spare ribbon to try, you will probably find it will work.

[AlienDyne]

http://forums.windrivers.com/showthread.php?t=64603

[confus-ed]

Duplicated post here

Hopefully Noo will be along in a bit & merge them up ..

[NooNoo]

All merged.