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    Dv8000 Desktop hard drive possible?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by samiroma, Mar 2, 2007.

  1. samiroma

    samiroma Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello, I am trying to hook up an 3.5' 320gb desktop hard drive to the second slot on the dv8000. I took off my second 2.5' and pluged in a 44pin to 40pin cable to which I connected the desktop hard drive and power adapter cable. Still when I boot It stops right after the post and gives me errors. Is there anyone that can figure out what I'm doing wrong? I've tried all the different slave, master and cable select settings with no luck. I've included some pictures to help in the task of identifying the problem.

    Hope someone can help, it took me really I long time just to find the hardware.
    Sami
     

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    Birdmangsr Notebook Guru

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    um.... because its a sata drive not a 40 pin drive... that might be the problem?
     
    Birdmangsr, Mar 2, 2007
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    awdark Notebook Consultant

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    Might be a really really stupid question, but why do you want to go through all that work when you could have purchased a IDE->USB adapter for like $10 with the power brick?
    The only limitation I can think of is the fact that you can't read the SMART data or boot off of it (probably not an issue with modern laptops)

    If you wanted to go SATA im sure you could find an express card or pcmcia or perhaps the internal SATA with a IDE>SATA adapter... I don't see what can be wrong with your adapter other than the possibility that it wasn't wired right O_O

    btw, very amusing adapter. I considered that once for this old laptop I had but gave up at "hmm IDE cable is wider than the drive itself..."
     
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    samiroma Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi, the drives on the dv8000 are IDE not sata, I have the turion version and it shipped with IDE's.
     
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    awdark, thats exactly the problem, you can't read SMART data or boot off USB. Drives on the DV8000 I have are IDE not SATA. I need to troubleshoot some desktop hard drives and USB just won't do the job. Thanks. Any other Ideas?
     
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    didnt realize the dv8000z's had IDE and not sata my bad ;x
     
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    Yep I don't know why but the amd versions had ide while the centrino duo seem to have had the sata. Anyway, anyone has tried this before can give me a hint how to make it work? Thanks Sami
     
    samiroma, Mar 3, 2007
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