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    Help needed to fit new hard drive to HP ZV5000 laptop

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Ruckwood, Oct 16, 2008.

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    Hi everybody,

    I'm having a problem fitting my new hard drive - I'm pretty new to this, so please forgive me if this is a basic problem!

    Basically, I own a Hewlett Packard Pavilion ZV5000 laptop. I wanted to upgrade my paltry 40Gb drive to a 160Gb one. I used www.drivemylaptop.co.uk to identify which hard drives were compatible - see this LINK

    So, I chose the 'Western Digital WD1600BEVE 2.5", 160GB, 5400RPM, 8MB Cache' drive.

    When it came to installing the new drive, I took out the old one and noticed that the pins, or connectors, or IDE connectors (still new to this) were completely different. However, it seemed to slot in nonetheless so I booted up my laptop and surprise surprise, it didn't even recognise the drive - you can see it is not connecting at all.

    I did a little bit of googling around the subject, and read some talk about IDE adaptors - now, it looks like there is some kind of unit in the hard drive bay, that the old drive slots into easily (take a look at this - my old drive is a Seagate, and the images of it look like they have different connectors) Is this an adaptor? What IS an adaptor? And, also, how the hell do I remove it, or get a new one, to fit the new drive - the screws or whatever they are look totally unaccessible!

    Please help me, I'm pretty fed up with the whole situation to be honest!

    Thanks very much,
    Ruckwood
     
    Ruckwood, Oct 16, 2008
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