Help in Installing a new HD for my HP Pavilion!!!!

Hey everyone,

So the other day i bought a hitachi 160 GB ATA/IDE harddrive for my HP Pavilion dv8000 laptop. after I opened up the cover i noticed that my old harddrive (which is an ATA drive as well) looks different than my new one and my new HD will not fit in my computer. I include some pictures to clear some things up..am I missing something here? or did I buy the wrong HD? pleassssse help me out guys!!

My new HD:



My computer:


My old HD:




sorry for the bad pics..i can take better ones with a real camera if needed

also, i dont know if theres some adapter or something that i need...

 

Remove the adapter (carefully!) from the old drive's IDE connector and move it to your new drive.

 

The drive in the first picture is clearly an IDE/ATA drive. The lower two pictures, however, look like they depict an SATA drive, which is incompatible with the older IDE/ATA standard.

I think you probably screwed up here...

 

well my computer says that my old drive is an ATA, and about 5 ppl on this site have told me that it is an ata. i think that theres an adaptor on my old one that needs to be removed, i just dont actually know how to

 

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3010&review=dv8000t+Review

according to this review, the dv8000t is sata. also, if you check the hdtune and google the part number, the hd also takes you to a sata hard drive.

edit: the dv8000z might be ata.

edit 2: nope, it's sata as well. you may have been confused with the terminology....it says the drive for the dv8000z is ata-7 which is actually another name for sata.

 

Yep, you bought the wrong harddrive. The new one you bought is a pata which works with older laptops. You probally have to return it or exchange it. From what I see on the market is that the sata are way cheaper to buy than the pata. Also, make sure you buy the 7200rpm and not the 5400rpm. Huge difference in performance.

 

As you can see, it says that its an ATA drive, so mabey im missing something here? can anyone help me

 

Which model of the dv8000 do you have? the HP.com site gives you information about what drive your computer has and how to replace it. If there is an adapter for your model it should tell you there.

But to be honest I don't see any adapter on that drive. Maybe there is one on the computer itself if one at all.

If you can't find the info on the HP site just post here your specific model and I'll check it out for you...But honestly I doubt there is an adapter on there. Might have confused IDE with S-ATA

EDIT: In reference to the photo you just posted. S-ATA is still ATA. That screen wouldn't be something to base your type of drive on.

 

On the back of my comp. it says the the model is an HP DV8000. not 8000T or C. I'm just confused at why my device manager is calling it an ATA and not SATA. if you can find any info for me that would be awesome

thanks

 

S-ATA is ATA. IDE/ATA is ATA also. It's a different interface, but both are ATA. The device manager isn't anything to base your purchasing decisions on.

The following web page lists different models for the dv8000 series. You will find it on the bottom of your computer.

http://h20180.www2.hp.com/apps/Look...nt=S-A-R163-1&h_pagetype=s-001&h_query=dv8000

EDIT: Doing a google search on your HD model as listed in the device manager brought up this Fujitsu web site. It is S-ATA.

http://www.fujitsu.com/global/services/computing/storage/hdd/mhdd/mhv2xxxbh-catalog.html

S-ATA is better than IDE. If you bought the new drive hoping to improve performance, return it and keep your S-ATA drive. If it was for the extra space, buy one that is S-ATA.

 

also, if you look at the product page for your specific hard drive, it says that it is sata.

http://www.fujitsu.com/global/services/computing/storage/hdd/mhdd/mhv2xxxbh-catalog.html

as others have said, sata is a type of ata connection (ata-7 to be exact).

 

I wasn't paying attention when I posted my reply. I assumed that you had a dv8000z (AMD) series notebook which uses IDE, not the dv8000t (Intel) series that uses SATA, and didn't look closely at the pictures. HP didn't switch their AMD notebooks to SATA until the dv9000z generation. You need a SATA drive, at which point you can move the adapter from the old drive to the new one.