The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Mtron Mobi 3018 on Dell D430.. help!

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by rockhill04, May 20, 2009.

  1. rockhill04

    rockhill04 Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    4
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    I installed the mtron mobi 3018 on my dell D430, when into BIOS and saw primary drive: 32gb HDD. I said.. great, it recognized it.
    Set up windows XP CD, did a complete format (NSTF) and windows started loading. when windows setup wants to restart, it tells me there is no bootable device. Go to BIOS again, change booting order to 1. Internal HDD, but to my surprise.. on device manager, there is no 32gb HDD showing anymore under primary drive.
    Take battery out to see if light on SSD is on.. and it is, so SSD is connected.

    What am I doing wrong? my BIOS are A08 for Dell D430.
    It caught my attention, that when formatting, it listed 30521 MB available space on HDD 0, S/N 0, bus 0 on ATAPI (MBR)
    It listed no info on the device whatsoever. but windows files loaded, because the mtron now has 2500 mb used.

    Any help, it will be appreciated.
     
    rockhill04, May 20, 2009
    #1