Second Hard Drive installed on my M1330

Hey everyone, I went ahead and followed the information on this forum on adding a second hard drive through an optical drive caddy

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=388625&page=1


I've posted the problem in that thread ... and I may be breaking some rules posting a new thread ... I just know there has to be a simple answer to this that I am not seeing ... so I am desperate, so here we go!

I've added the Optical drive caddy into my M1330 successfully... at first. My computer was actually in hibernation when I took it apart (battery and all) to install the caddy. I took out the slot load drive and installed a Momentus 500gb drive. Put the Comp back together and started. Vista recognized the drive as if it were just plugged in I could browse files and copy to and from the drive. On reboot though, the drive is no longer detected. The "fixed bay device" notification in the bios under "Device Info" claims that nothing is there when it would normally show the DVD drive. Device Manager does not show the device once Vista is booted, and it does not show up when I scan for new hardware. The computer boots fine as it did before, and I even rebooted using a thorough POST behavior to try to force it to recognize the HDD in in the caddy the PATA slot. So ...

It recognized it at first, being able to copy and move files to and from the drive. Once the first reboot happened, and the BIOS became involved, the drive is no longer detected in both the BIOS or Windows ... Is it conflicting with my Primary HDD??? is there something I can do in the BIOS? I am reluctant to take the laptop apart, since I know the drive functioned correctly once recognized.

Can anyone help???

 

I have actually found the solution... the SATA to PATA caddy had jumper settings that were conflicting with the Motherboard. It threw me off because I originally saw the drive attached when resuming from Hibernation. I re-opened the computer and swapped the jumper settings, and success! Sorry to bother, but I replied so maybe someone in a similar situation won't be pulling their hair out like I was.

 

So you have up the DVD drive to have additional storage? Interesting, I may look into this for my secondary M1330....

 

Can you tell us what you changed the jumper settings from/to?

 

Based on picture shown here either of the following caddies would do the job. In both cases without the faceplate:

- US$42+delivery newmodeus 9.5mm sata-to-pata
- US$28-delivered ebay 9.5mm sata-to-pata

The ebay product defaults to slave mode on my system, but can be jumpered to be master by bridging pin 47+45 on the JAE50 connector as shown here.

 

Hi to all
I'm italian, I would like to add second hard disk to my M1330
Thank to nando4 for tutorial and Beachfront for confirm that it works
In this page
http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?LH_Pref...00&_sc=1&_sop=15&_sticky=1&_stpos=00100&gbr=1
which is the right item form my notebook? these are for HP Compaq, are they good?

Is this item good for my M a t s u s h i t a slot load drive?
http://cgi.ebay.it/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=370331460294&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

Thank you very much in advance

 

Hello again
is good this Caddyfor my M1330?
http://newmodeus.com/shop/index.php...id=258&zenid=796e076285e251674393ec1453a16e7d

 

Hello
for the exact caddy I asked to newmodeus and they have added the new ID for DELL XPS M1330 on their site at this link
http://newmodeus.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=277
I bought it

Now I'll attend an answer from ebay vendor for an external box for my matsu-a.

Anyone can put any link for right external box?