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12-10-2007, 04:20 PM
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New WD 2.5" HDD not recognizing for WinXP Pro????
What's up again everyone... Looking for some help.
I have an IBM Thinkpad Lenovo X60 Laptop, with a Hitachi SATA 2.5" 100GB drive that crapped out on me. I got on newegg and ordered me a Western Digital 160GB drive to replace it, and I'm having one issue that I can't seem to resolve: The drive shows up in BIOS but when I try to load WindowsXP Pro, it does not recognize that a drive exists. I've tried multiple options, but no avail. Any idea's for me to try? Thanks to all in advance for any advice or help. 
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12-10-2007, 08:08 PM
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If that other drive had a hidden restore partition you needed to use you may have to recreate it first.
What does your manual say ? Is that an XP restore disks you created when you got machine? You didn't mention it but you checked to be sure your model would handle a 160 GB drive from WD ?
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12-11-2007, 07:40 AM
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I have tried the restore disc, not to mention a copy of WinXP Home and WinXP Pro from my company's IT department, just to check to see if the disc was bad... still nothing. and I didn't check to see if my model could handle a 160GB, I figured it wouldn't be a problem tho, but the BIOS does recognize the drive exist, that's what's so weird!! haha... ahh, the lovely world of computers.... ;-)
Do you think a pre-format could work? I was thinking of pluging it into a desktop machine with a converter (if one exist) and format it 1st, then try it. |
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12-11-2007, 07:48 AM
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That's a SATA drive; I'm wondering if you need to load the SATA drivers before windows can recognize the drive. Are there any settings in the BIOS Setup relating to SATA or IDE ? Sometimes setting the drive in some type of IDE compatibility mode helps.
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12-11-2007, 08:51 AM
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First just check to make sure you can use that hard drive, if the bios sees it you're likely right but then again maybe not.
Can you tell us exactly what's going on ? You boot from the optical drive (first in the boot order) and after that nothing ? Lenovo has no information about setting up a new hard drive for you to follow ? |
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12-11-2007, 09:55 AM
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Thanks for the tips, I will check this at lunch time. When I get further along, Pam, I will post exactly what the error is, plus the info from the BIOS. Thanks again everyone.
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12-13-2007, 12:29 AM
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That laptop will support 160 GB with no problem. There is an option in the BIOS of most Lenovos to turn off AHCI and/or turn on Compatibility Mode; you may want to try toggling that and see if you can install XP afterwards.
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12-13-2007, 03:38 PM
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12-13-2007, 05:29 PM
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Glad it worked! Switch it back afterwards, because I believe AHCI improves performance.
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