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    m7700 hard drive help

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by bobasp1, May 24, 2008.

  1. bobasp1

    bobasp1 Notebook Geek

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    Hi I have an issue with my m7700, the OS became corrupted and when I try to repair it or use an official windows xp cd *lost my alienware cd*, It says the hard drive cannot be found. The only thing i can really do now is install linux on it.

    I called alienware and they wouldn't help me, any one have any tips here?
     
    bobasp1, May 24, 2008
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    nahiyan13 Notebook Evangelist

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    Are you still within your warranty period?If so, they obviously should help you. Well if you know how to take out the hard drive,try taking it out and placing it back again.
     
    nahiyan13, May 24, 2008
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    Doesn't it use the SATA interface? If so, you need to do slipstreaming of the SATA drivers...
     
    bhattsan, May 24, 2008
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    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    ^^ Exactly.

    If you have the Clevo D900T (Area51 m7700), it is using AHCI... so XP installs/repairs will require SATA drivers from:
    - floppy disk (using a USB floppy drive that came with the system)
    - or using nLite to slipstream the SATA drivers into a XP CD.
     
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    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    Its all in the manual pretty much.
     
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  7. bobasp1

    bobasp1 Notebook Geek

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    No warranty, I think i got a strain of douche operators or something because as soon as I say i don't have a warranty and its broken they say "Sorry we can't Help you. Goodbye"

    THe Drive isn't sata its uhh ata?? Well there is 2 rows of pins about 20 in each row so its a ata?

    Personally I would just buy a external hard reader for that type of interface then just do it that way IIIIIIIFFFFF it works >_> I have a sneaking suspicion that it wont recognize it. I just have linux running on it now because thats the only thing that will recognize the drive.
     
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    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    then its ATA.

    So do you have a RAID array, or is it a single ATA drive?
     
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  9. bobasp1

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    single drive 60 gigs 7200rpm >_> . It has a duel raid array though.
     
    bobasp1, May 25, 2008
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    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    disable the RAID in the BIOS if you are not using it.
     
    Gophn, May 25, 2008
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  11. bobasp1

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    That would really screw it up? I never had 2 hdds to start with so why would raid matter? Can it be enabled and still work?
     
    bobasp1, May 26, 2008
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    it can be enabled and still work.

    So does your BIOS recognize you HDD?
     
    Gophn, May 26, 2008
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