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    HELP! N3511 hard drive upgrade gone awry

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Iron_Dreamer, May 10, 2006.

  1. Iron_Dreamer

    Iron_Dreamer Notebook Enthusiast

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    Today I tried to upgrade the hard drive in my N3511 to a Seagate Momentus 7200.1 100GB. I got the old drive out fine, and installed the new one. Booted up, the drive spun, and was recognized, so I figured all was well. Tried to use the restore disk, but it kept refusing to format the drive. Ok, let's try an XP pro cd, and the result is that at the partition creation stage, I would tell it to make a partition (tried various sizes) but it would not take, i.e. the drive stayed as just one large unformatted, unpartitioned, disk. I also tried using the recovery console, with fixmbr (which seemed to work), chkdsk (couldn't do anything because no partitions were detected), and still nothing.

    The real pain in the butt, is that I put the old drive back in, and now it bahves the same darn way. I did nothing to the data on it, and now it won't boot or even install windows.

    What the heck is going on here?
     
    Iron_Dreamer, May 10, 2006
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  2. Notebook Solutions

    Notebook Solutions Company Representative NBR Reviewer

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    I know what your problem is...

    Have you bought a S-ATA harddisk? They ask for a special driver or boot up floppy or something like that (to install Windows on it). If you dont have a floppy, go to the site of Fujitsu and then search for a Raid Controller and mount that on your WinXP CD.

    Then the problem will be solved I think.
     
    Notebook Solutions, May 13, 2006
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