Portege R100: recovery issue - Error partioning drive

My old portege r100 is not working at all.
I tried to use the product recovery cd rom but during the recovery process the following message apears:
Error partioning drive!
What does it mean?
What can i do to overcome it?
Thanks in advance
Yannis

Hi
It seems that HDD could not be partitioned properly.
Maybe the HDD is not ok?
Check if the HDD is recognized and listed in BIOS.
If the HDD is not listed, then the HDD is dead and should be replaced.
If the HDD is listed, then there could be a problem with the HDD partitions table
You could test the HDD using a tool called Drive Fitness Test.
You could also try to format the HDD firstly. You could attach this HDD to another computer using an USB HDD controller. This helps you to get access to the HDD and to format this drive

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