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    HP DV9210US Second Hard drive help

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Bluesin, Mar 3, 2008.

  1. Bluesin

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    I recently purchased a WD3200BEVT 320Gb SATA Western digital hard drive for my HP DV9210US Laptop. I also purchased the required HDD adapter from HP.
    My problem is this, I installed the drive and cannot get it to recognize the second hard drive. I checked the WD web site and the only jumper settings i can find for the scorpio are here: http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc...mlhbCBBVEEgaGFyZCBkcml2ZXMu&p_li=&p_topview=1
    I am not sure where to go from here and any help would be greatly appreciated.
     
    Bluesin, Mar 3, 2008
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    dondadah88 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    its easy tell me what os you have
     
    dondadah88, Mar 3, 2008
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  3. Bluesin

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    Windows vista
    the drive does not show up in the disk management tool to format
     
    Bluesin, Mar 3, 2008
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  4. flipfire

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    Jumper settings are usually printed on the hard drive itself.

    What version BIOS are you using? You said it wasnt getting detected.
     
    flipfire, Mar 3, 2008
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    put in the vista cd and see what it does (i was going to tell you to go in to disk manger)
     
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  6. Bluesin

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    my pc didnt come with a vista cd, it was preinstalled. and i have the most recent bios on the hp web site. version f.3d
     
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  7. flipfire

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    Try removing your primary drive and installing this new drive only.. See if BIOS detects it even though you wont be able to boot into anything
     
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    i will try that but i have to wait a few minutes till class is over. approx 5 min
     
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    ok i tried removing the primary drive which i found out was a Seagate Momentus 5400.2 120GB Hard Drive. i went into the bios and was able to run diagnostics on the second drive. something i was unable to do before. the seagate drive also has 4 pins for jumpers and no jumpers in the drive.
     
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    Put the WD in the primary and put the seagate in with jumpers into slave drive
     
    flipfire, Mar 3, 2008
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    It should work without any jumpers. No matter where it's located, it should be recognized by Vista. Try to check the connection of your new drive. Try to check if it works as primary drive, I mean, if the new drive is working itself properly.
     
    suland, Mar 4, 2008
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  12. flipfire

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    When i told him to take out the existing primary drive and only put the new HDD in. He was able to detect it and run diagnostics on it

     
    flipfire, Mar 4, 2008
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    Ok It looks like the drive was completely incompatible with the system... i tried three separate drives and none of them worked. i ended up getting a 200g 7200 rpm hitachi
     
    Bluesin, Mar 8, 2008
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