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    Hard Drive recognition

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by tiking, Jul 31, 2009.

  1. tiking

    tiking Notebook Consultant

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    Hi all. I just bought me a WESTERN DIGITAL SCORPIO BLACK 160GB 7200RPM SATA/300 16MB . hard drive for my HP laptop. for some reason the computer does not recognizes it. Any ideas?
     
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    garetjax NBR Freelance Reviewer NBR Reviewer

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    Could you be more specific? What are you doing with the hard drive that the notebook does not recognize it? Are you trying to do a fresh OS install on this new hard drive, or using it as secondary storage, or?
     
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    tiking Notebook Consultant

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    I will be using it to install another OS. But in order to do that I need my computer to recognize that there is a drive attached to it. In the Device Manager folder there are exclamation marks. So I take it, it is a driver issue or maybe something else. I tried removing the OS drive and replaced it with the new drive but it tells me about some error. Then I placed the OS drive has the first drive and the newer drive as the second but it still will not recognizes the new drive.
     
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    bossier330 Notebook Consultant

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    I couldn't really tell what you meant in your last post, but have you tried the new HD with both of your HD ports?
     
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    tiking Notebook Consultant

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    Yes. I've tried it in both HD ports.
     
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    makaveli72 Eat.My.Shorts

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    Did you try toggling the IDE/AHCI HDD setting in the BIOS? Try setting the interface as IDE and see if that helps.
     
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    tiking Notebook Consultant

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    I managed to get it working now. I removed the primary Drive and replace it with the brand new drive leaving the second port empty. I installed vista then down the computer and removed the brand new drive from the primary port and installed it on the secondary port. Then I installed the older primary drive back to its original primary port. Then I installed Windows 7 onto the older drive.
    Now i just have to see if I get the option to choose which drive I want to start up when I start te computer...
     
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