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Hard Drive Troubles
I just bought a used Compaq R3000 with a busted hard drive. I bought a replacement HD from ZZF, a Hitachi 7200 80GB, not sure of the model # becuase it's in the notebook. Anyway, when I go into the Bios and do a HDD check, it tells me "No IDE Device". I've tried setting the jumper on the HD to master, slave, and cable select and none work. When I get into Windows installation, it says it cannot contuine bcause no HDD is present. Any ideas?
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Maybe bios cannot "see" large hard drives (large for it of course). What HD size was inside before?
Cheers,
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Did you transfer the adaptor from the old drive's IDE connector to the new drive?
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I don't know, I imagine a 20GB. But come on, 80 GBs isn't very big. I would understand if I got a 400GB drive or something, even though they don't make 400GB notebook drives.
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Did you transfer the adaptor from the old drive's IDE connector to the new drive?
I wasn't aware that there was an adapter. I'll call the guy up and see.
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Unfortunately 120GB disks are already very big disks in notebooks. You can't compare desktop disks with those. Can you check somewhere in the technical details?
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I have no way of booting the notebook up, I can't check the technical details. Plus Compaq/HP's website sucks and I can't find information about that anywere. It's also an 80 GB hard drive, not 120.
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I know. My suggestion was to check the paper technical details. Anyway, I checked online and it supports 80GB disks.
Strange that it doesn't see it. Well, all that I can I do is to wish you good luck.
Cheers,
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Yeah, check the adaptor as Brian mentioned. Thats most probably the cause for the hard disk for not being recognised.
80Gb should not be a problem for the R3000.
The adaptor is attached to the drive like this...
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Where can I buy one? I need it overnighted.