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Old 03-12-2006, 05:42 PM   #1
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HP Laptop HD upgrade

I have an HP XH535. 20gb hard drive is giving up the ghost. Somedays it works others well...

So I purchased a 40gb Hitachi Travelstar. Got everything copied over and all is working, except...

The hard drive activity light on the HP won't turn off. A few seconds after the power is on, so is it.

If I put in another drive, I have a Toshiba 20gb, it works correctly.

I have checked the BIOS. 1.04. That is the latest I could find on the HP site. I ran the Hitachi Drive Fitness Test software with no errors.

Is there anything I can do to get the light to turn off?
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How many gigabytes is the drive showing in Disk Management or My Computer?
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Old 03-22-2006, 09:33 PM   #4
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I believe it was showing the full capacity(like 38gb).
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