Computer Problems? Computing.Net has over 1,000,000 posts about all things technology related! Over 90% answered within 24 hours! Click here to start participating now! Also, be sure to check out the New User Guide.
Laptop won't recognize HDD
Name: Scistone Date: July 27, 2005 at 18:14:25 Pacific OS: Windows XP Home CPU/Ram: 500 Mhz, 256 MB Ram
Comment:
Original HDD is 6 GB. Bought a new 40 GB Samsung HDD, cloned it by attaching by USB and using Casper XP. Installed new HD and laptop ways no hard drive. Put original HDD back in laptop and still get message no hard drive. How do I get the laptop to recognize at least one hard drive?
Name: ham30 Date: July 27, 2005 at 18:51:46 Pacific
Reply:
Make sure the cable is installed correctly and the drive doesn't have any bent pins. Make sure the Master/Slave plugging is correct. Make sure that the bios recognizes the different drive when it's connected. If the drive doesn't spin, check the power connector.
0
Response Number 2
Name: ham30 Date: July 27, 2005 at 18:54:46 Pacific
Reply:
oops, just noticed it's a laptop, The bent pin advice was good anyway.
Summary: The laptop is an older Inspiron 2500 Celeron. I took out the old 5GB HDD and have been trying to replace it with a new Western Digital Scorpio 40GB. I updated the BIOS and still have no idea why the...
Summary: Medion MD41300 laptop won´t boot, only black screen. I tryed to reinstall XP from CD, but it coulden´t format the hdd then i hold down the power button to turn off. i tryed it several times, but n...
Summary: Greetings, My one month old Acer AOD 250 locked up out of nowhere. I rebooted and before loading Windows received an error notice - check HDD connection and two DXE errors - one saying the computer co...
0 
Canon Scanner
