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 terry486 |
Sun, 01/11/09@18:00
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I have an Packard Bell Easynote R1935 notebook serial number:702211960233 and have had to change the hard drive. I have fitted the hard drive which is shown in the BIOS but when I install windows and get as far as pressing enter to install windows which is XP home I get the following message.
"Setup did not find any hard disc drives in your computer.
Make sure any hard disc drives are powered and properly connected etc."
The new hard disc is fitted correctly."
How can I get windows to recognise the hard drive?
Please help.
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Forum Editor |
Sun, 01/11/09@18:15
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Presumably the new drive is correctly formatted, and you have double-checked the connection.
If the drive is recognised in the BIOS but not by Windows setup it may be that you haven't set the drive as the first boot device. It may not be initialising in time for the installer to see it.
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woodchip |
Sun, 01/11/09@18:43
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If its a Sata Hard Drive the Drivers may need loading first for Windows to see it
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woodchip |
Sun, 01/11/09@18:46
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PS Normally Windows loads Generic Sata drivers when windows is first loaded, also windows should setup the drive if it can see it. It should not need you to do nothing other than Boot with the Operating System CD then choose Setup.
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Fruit Bat /\0/\ |
Sun, 01/11/09@21:18
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When installing XP to a SATA drive you need to load the RAID/ SATA drivers at the F6 prompt at the beginning of the XP setup.
XP expects them on a Floppy disk if you have no floppy drive then the only way is to slipstream your drivers and a copy of XP using nlite to burn to a CD
nlite
click here
tutorial
click here
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terry486 |
Mon, 02/11/09@15:50
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Hard drive not recognised by windows The hard drive is IDE not sata,it is not formatted as it is not recognised by windows. It is fitted correctly and I am using a genuine version of XP.
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woodchip |
Mon, 02/11/09@17:33
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Not all make of drive will work in all Laptops, So that once I think many years ago in in PCA Forum. Thats why When I updated a Medion Laptop Drive I took the Old one out to see what it was. A Hitachi drive, I fitted a 60Gb to Replace a 30Gb nothing wrong with old drive other than it was a slow and small drive
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Dick Tattor |
Mon, 02/11/09@19:05
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What was the size of the old drive and what is the size of the new one.
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Dick Tattor |
Mon, 02/11/09@19:17
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It looks as if the notebook was shipped with either a 50, 40 or 20Gb hard drive.
The XP disk you are using, is it the PB recovery disk XP disk
or a full microsoft XP disk?
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Crossbow7 |
Mon, 02/11/09@19:23
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Where did you get the replacement drive from? Does it respond to a diskpart command? It may not have the correct Master boot record (MBR), but you can give it one...
After the initial 'Setup is loading files...' phase it'll come to a section with 3 choices.
The 2nd choice is: 'To repair a Windows XP installation using the Recovery Console, press R' (as an example, see 3rd screenshot at click here).
Choose this Recovery Console option & at a command prompt type - diskpart & press Enter.
It should give a list of hard drives/partitions.
Press Esc & at the command prompt type - format C: (where C: is the main partition) & press Enter. Press Y & press Enter to agree with the format.
When the format completes, press Esc & at a command prompt type - exit & press Enter. The PC should now reboot.
Once your back to the point with the 3 options, choose the 1st option to install Windows. It should now recognise your hard disk/partition & install Windows as normal. G
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Deekio |
Mon, 02/11/09@21:33
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terry486,
These are the installation instruction for your hard drive:- click here
Pay particular attention to setting thejumpers.
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Dick Tattor |
Mon, 02/11/09@21:42
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If terry486 is using a PB restore disk. Then the old drive may be tattooed to the restore disk. This might make any new hard drive unrecognizable to the installation disk. The tattoo has to be copied from the old drive and transfered to the new drive before the disk will load windows. click here
If it's a full microsoft disk, it should load.
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woodchip |
Mon, 02/11/09@22:44
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Deekio Laptop Drives do not have jumpers
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Deekio |
Tue, 03/11/09@00:17
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woodchip This one does, check the link.
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woodchip |
Tue, 03/11/09@13:29
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Deekio Note what it says in is first post to this thread "I have fitted the hard drive which is shown in the BIOS" hence jumpers would if there was any would not make no difference, and I cannot see anywhere what make kind of Hard drive he fitted that says there are jumpers on the drive
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Deekio |
Tue, 03/11/09@15:17
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woodchip The model notebook that terry486 quoted in his first post was PB Easynote r1935 see here:-click here which link clearly states that the hard drive used in this model is a Seagate Momentus 42 Hard Drive. see here:-click here and this pdf. file clearly states that the drive has jumpers, and they must be correctly configured. Personally if terry486 is replacing his hard drive because quote:he had to.
Then he would want to replace it with the identical drive?
Both links are from Packard Bell site.
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Deekio |
Tue, 03/11/09@15:46
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woodchip PS. Woodchip,
I never thought laptop drives had jumpers either
until I read that!
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woodchip |
Tue, 03/11/09@17:29
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I accept what you say, but he does not say that he fitted a Seagate drive
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woodchip |
Tue, 03/11/09@17:29
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PS that may be why is Laptop cannot see it
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woodchip |
Tue, 03/11/09@17:44
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PS I had a Toshiba from Comat for a Week took it back as it would not connect to my router with Encryption Enabled. That had 2 160Gb drives, that may been the reason they started with jumpers
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