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    DV6500 and SATA2 7.2k rpm hdd incompatibility?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by slayek, Dec 30, 2008.

  1. slayek

    slayek Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have purchased a new 320GB Seagate 7200.3 laptop drive, model ST9320421AS to replace my original 120GB drive (model ST9120822AS) in my laptop. Ever since the replacement, the new drive intermittently does not show up in bios and therefor intermittently windows XP fails to boot. Bios reports that there is no booting partition available. I am wondering if this is a fault of the drive itself since the same machine works perfectly fine with the old drive. I was told by seagate that there is no firmware available for this drive. Can some of you have any idea why the drive is doing so?
     
    slayek, Dec 30, 2008
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    beut Notebook Consultant

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    Your new drive is SATA II, and the old drive is SATA I. Probably your motherboard won't support the faster drive as SATA II. The work around soluton is lock the new drive to 1.5GB/s mode.

    This is how to lock it in 1.5GB/s mode.

    This information is from Western Digital .
     
    beut, Dec 30, 2008
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  3. slayek

    slayek Notebook Enthusiast

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    That can not be true here. See this, 250gb sataII drive for dv6500.
     
    slayek, Dec 30, 2008
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    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    Try locking it anyway
     
    flipfire, Dec 30, 2008
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    Dr. Octogonapus Notebook Enthusiast

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    also if you still have the old drive and it works, put it back in and flash the BIOS on the notebook to the most current version just in case.
     
    Dr. Octogonapus, Dec 31, 2008
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    slayek Notebook Enthusiast

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    It is running on latest BIOS, but the problem is still there. Flipfire, I will do so once I get my drive back from RMA.
     
    slayek, Jan 2, 2009
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    walterdt3 Notebook Consultant

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    slayek,
    This sounds like a drive problem. I'm using a DV9500t with 2 SATA II drives (wd 320G 7.2K rpm) with no problems.
     
    walterdt3, Jan 5, 2009
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