Hard Drive Troubles

I just bought a used Compaq R3000 with a busted hard drive. I bought a replacement HD from ZZF, a Hitachi 7200 80GB, not sure of the model # becuase it's in the notebook. Anyway, when I go into the Bios and do a HDD check, it tells me "No IDE Device". I've tried setting the jumper on the HD to master, slave, and cable select and none work. When I get into Windows installation, it says it cannot contuine bcause no HDD is present. Any ideas?

 

Maybe bios cannot "see" large hard drives (large for it of course). What HD size was inside before?

Cheers,

 

Did you transfer the adaptor from the old drive's IDE connector to the new drive?

 

I don't know, I imagine a 20GB. But come on, 80 GBs isn't very big. I would understand if I got a 400GB drive or something, even though they don't make 400GB notebook drives.

 

I wasn't aware that there was an adapter. I'll call the guy up and see.

 

Unfortunately 120GB disks are already very big disks in notebooks. You can't compare desktop disks with those. Can you check somewhere in the technical details?

 

I have no way of booting the notebook up, I can't check the technical details. Plus Compaq/HP's website sucks and I can't find information about that anywere. It's also an 80 GB hard drive, not 120.

 

I know. My suggestion was to check the paper technical details. Anyway, I checked online and it supports 80GB disks.
Strange that it doesn't see it. Well, all that I can I do is to wish you good luck.

Cheers,

 

Yeah, check the adaptor as Brian mentioned. Thats most probably the cause for the hard disk for not being recognised.
80Gb should not be a problem for the R3000.

The adaptor is attached to the drive like this...
http://forum.notebookreview.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=572&d=1131744413

 

Where can I buy one? I need it overnighted.

 

http://www.laptopking.com/kingpartdetails.asp?ref=493&category=caddys

holy **** it's 90 dollars...

 

just curious.. how was the harddrive connected if the adapter is missing? Is the drive just sitting in the drive bay?

 

It must be. I just measured and the pins don't even connect to the plug on the laptop. No wonder it doesn't work. I've found that little adapter on eBay, but the user has 2 negative sales so I'm kinda nervous about it. 29.98 + about 12 dollars shipping.

 

http://partsurfer.hp.com is HP's spare parts site. I don't see the part listed, but there is a Contact Us link. I vaguely recall someone getting the HD adaptor from HP.

I take it that the old/dead drive has already been disposed of?

 

Yes, it was thrown away. He said the arm broke in it.

Part number is 350835-001. It;s about 70 bucks on HPs site. I'm not even sure it comes with that little adapter, I think it's just the case and screws.

 

Try a local computer repair shop. They might have one from some old junked out HP laptop.