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    Installing New IDE Hard Disk in dv8000

    Discussion in 'HP' started by tracekill, Aug 7, 2007.

  1. tracekill

    tracekill Newbie

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    I just purchased a brand new Seagate 120GB IDE notebook harddrive and I open up the drive pay on my HP Pavilion dv8000 laptop and notice that the plug for the drive is significantly smaller than the standard IDE will allow for. The other, manufacturer installed drive is IDE so I don't understand why this other one won't fit. Any suggestions?
     
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    brianstretch Notebook Virtuoso

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    You probably just need HP's mounting kit for the second drive. I think that's available from HP Partsurfer.

    I'm assuming that you don't have the Intel version of the dv8000 series that I think uses SATA, which would indeed be significantly smaller than IDE. The AMD version uses IDE.
     
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    tracekill Newbie

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    I do have the Intel version but the drive is still listed as IDE. Thanks for the link on the mounting kit I'll check it out. Thank you for the fast response as well.
     
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    tracekill Newbie

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    Well great, I went back to Fry's and exchanged the Ultra ATA drive with a SATA drive that fit perfectly but now won't be recognized my windows. It recognizes it under hardware and says that its working perfectly but it wont appear in my computer. Any help
     
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    You need to partition and format the drive.
     
    brianstretch, Aug 7, 2007
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    car Notebook Enthusiast

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    car, Aug 8, 2007
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