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Hard Drive Upgrade

by Coldfingers11 Nov 13, 2009 7:17AM PST

hello,

I recently purchased a new laptop hard drive to upgrade from 80gb to 250GB. Here is the link to the hdd I bought.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152176

here are the specs to the laptop I own.

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00704031&lang=en&cc=us&taskId=101&prodSeriesId=1839859&prodTypeId=321957

I'm not sure what exactly is going on but I'm thinking I got a dud...or more likely I messed up with choosing the right drive?
When I install it and boot it up to install windows it comes up with a black screen with no-disk, press any key to continue. If I try to put it into my enclosure it still isn't recognized by windows(general). I'm at a lost as to explain it but any help would be great. Thanks.

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Seems proper.
by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Nov 13, 2009 9:40AM PST

I see the usual SATA drive that many forget how to install Windows XP to. Your XP shall!!! be XP SP2 or you will be in deep trouble.

Again, ALL I have is what you tell me and if I take that then you need a better OS than what came with this machine. XP Pro misses on 2 points.

1. Too hard for average people to install to SATA drives.
2. No support for over 127GB drives.

Try Windows 7.
Bob

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Odd...Maybe?
by Coldfingers11 Nov 14, 2009 4:25AM PST

I installed the hdd and ran setup with windows xp w/ sp2. When I went to install xp the setup didn't recognize the drive at all. Question though, the sata drive that's in the laptop has the typical connectors but the one I bought has four pins to the right of the other two which look like power connectors to me at least. Just thought I'd throw that out there.

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The XP (any version) to SATA drives are
by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Nov 14, 2009 4:46AM PST

Widely discussed so I don't repeat that here. What you wrote sounds exactly what thousands of posts are saying. Did you research this?

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