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Posted by alan n pip on November 5, 2004, 6:54 pm
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Hi all, i was hoping somone could help!
A freind of mine gave me a toshiba satellite pro 500mhz . It has a smashed
screen and a broken 5 gig hard drive,,,,so I thought Ah EBAY!
So I bought a new 20 gig hard drive, and tried to install XP and Win 98,
(i have laptop linked up to my pc monitor)
Now it recognizesthe drive in the BIOS, and after partitioning it (100%)
i tried to format it but laptop will not recognize C: But when i take the
hard drive out and connect it to my PC with an IDE adapter Its Fine,, I can
install any operating system on it,!! and again , when I put it back in the
laptop ( with O/S on it) I still have no C: prompt and it will not read the
drive. , but it is there in the bios ??.. I ran a scandisk on it in the PC
,( no erros or bad sectors)
Ive never come across this before and was wondering if any of you guys had
any ideas!!
FDISK acknowledges the drive in the laptop, Im Baffled!!!
Thanks
Alan (Liverpool)
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Posted by JHEM on November 5, 2004, 7:48 pm
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> FDISK acknowledges the drive in the laptop, Im Baffled!!!
FDISK, remove ALL partitions and FORMAT the HD while it's in the laptop,
nowhere else.
This is common with laptop HDs that have come out of differing systems.
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James
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Posted by alan n pip on November 6, 2004, 5:44 pm
Please log in for more thread options I cant format because I cant get a c: prompt , even after ive created my
100% (1)partition ..
this is whats baffled me,, ive done it a hundred times before!
Alan
>
remove ALL partitions and FORMAT the HD while it's in the laptop,
> nowhere else.
>
> This is common with laptop HDs that have come out of differing systems.
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> Regards,
>
> James
>
> Checkout the NEW Thinkpad Forums: http://forum.thinkpads.com
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Posted by Barry Watzman on November 6, 2004, 3:50 am
Please log in for more thread options It's probably got an improper master/slave/cable select configuration.
alan n pip wrote:
> Hi all, i was hoping somone could help!
>
> A freind of mine gave me a toshiba satellite pro 500mhz . It has a smashed
> screen and a broken 5 gig hard drive,,,,so I thought Ah EBAY!
> So I bought a new 20 gig hard drive, and tried to install XP and Win 98,
>
> (i have laptop linked up to my pc monitor)
>
> Now it recognizesthe drive in the BIOS, and after partitioning it (100%)
> i tried to format it but laptop will not recognize C: But when i take the
> hard drive out and connect it to my PC with an IDE adapter Its Fine,, I can
> install any operating system on it,!! and again , when I put it back in the
> laptop ( with O/S on it) I still have no C: prompt and it will not read the
> drive. , but it is there in the bios ??.. I ran a scandisk on it in the PC
> ,( no erros or bad sectors)
>
> Ive never come across this before and was wondering if any of you guys had
> any ideas!!
>
> FDISK acknowledges the drive in the laptop, Im Baffled!!!
>
> Thanks
>
> Alan (Liverpool)
>
>
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Posted by alan n pip on November 7, 2004, 12:44 am
Please log in for more thread options Thanx for reply,, So do you know how I check that with a laptop,, Because
there is no master slave select jumpers on L/top drives.. , Im stumped!!!
Thanks
Alan
> It's probably got an improper master/slave/cable select configuration.
>
>
> alan n pip wrote:
>
> > Hi all, i was hoping somone could help!
> >
> > A freind of mine gave me a toshiba satellite pro 500mhz . It has a
smashed
> > screen and a broken 5 gig hard drive,,,,so I thought Ah EBAY!
> > So I bought a new 20 gig hard drive, and tried to install XP and Win
98,
> >
> > (i have laptop linked up to my pc monitor)
> >
> > Now it recognizesthe drive in the BIOS, and after partitioning it
(100%)
> > i tried to format it but laptop will not recognize C: But when i take
the
> > hard drive out and connect it to my PC with an IDE adapter Its Fine,, I
can
> > install any operating system on it,!! and again , when I put it back in
the
> > laptop ( with O/S on it) I still have no C: prompt and it will not read
the
> > drive. , but it is there in the bios ??.. I ran a scandisk on it in
the PC
> > ,( no erros or bad sectors)
> >
> > Ive never come across this before and was wondering if any of you guys
had
> > any ideas!!
> >
> > FDISK acknowledges the drive in the laptop, Im Baffled!!!
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Alan (Liverpool)
> >
> >
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