This shows as an older PIII that came with a 6 gig drive when I do a search. Is it possible that it's not capable of handling a 40 gig drive? Not knowing your BIOS, I am wondering if it has a "user defined" option where you set things manually. You may need to scale down the size a bit to a lower # of cylinders.
Hi,
The original hard drive got corrupted somehow. It was an IBM Thinkstar (20gb).
I recently purchased a Seagate Momentus (OEM) 40gb, installed it, and the notebook will not detect the hard drive.
The actual message on the notebook screen reads:
"Primary hard disk drive 0 not found"
I've tried various software tools (notibly Hiren's Boot CD), re-checked jumpers, and tried to use Dell support for files. All I could find were boot disks (I don't have a floppy drive in my notebook) and a diagnostic's cd that doesn't serve as a cd boot disk.
I'm at a loss of what to do. In case it helps, the BIOS Revision is A19. Thank you for your time and I look forward to any replies I get.
-Keith

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