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    Please help: Envy 15t-3xxx Hard Drive Cable Dead

    Discussion in 'HP' started by JunkStory, Oct 31, 2012.

  1. JunkStory

    JunkStory Notebook Consultant

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    Not even 2 months of owning my Envy 15t-3200, the laptop almost died out on me as it gave the "Disk Read Error" and was unable to boot to Windows. After days of fiddling around, I narrowed down the problem to the Hard Drive cable. Thank goodness it's the cable and not the mother board or something. When I wiggle the cable to a particular position, the laptop boots, but a slight change in this position will cause it to fail to read the hard drive again.

    So my question is, where can I get a replacement cable? According to the HP manual, I can order the part # 668828-001 which contains a lot of things, including the cable.

    My other option is this: Caddy and Cable for Envy 17-3000. The cable is what I'm interested in, and it connects the SATA drive to the HP proprietary socket. But since this is for the Envy 17t-3000 second drive, anyone know if it will work? Better yet, if someone who has this kit can take some clear pictures of the connection, it would be great.

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    JunkStory, Oct 31, 2012
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