Thank you for your help! I'm ugrading my dell inspiron 9300 laptop hard drive to a 7200 hitachi hard drive. After I put the new HD in the computer says no hard drive found. I tried running the windows xp disk but after it goes through its rounds it says it cannot install because no hard drive is found. How do I get the computer to recognize the new HD? I'm not a computer genius but im gessing I need a driver or something. If thats the case I don't have a floppy drive on this computer so how would I add information to it? I do have and external usb HD though. Thank you!
2006-11-29 23:10:00 · 5 answers · asked by mymail91329 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
I don't understand? There are no cables. There are just some metal pines sticking out of the hard drive that plug directly into the laptop. Thank you
2006-11-29 23:22:00 · update #1
Ok I got it fixed. It ended up being the pin cover. When I swaped the hard drives I changed the case and screws but not the pin cover so thats all it was. Thank you all for the help!
2006-11-30 19:23:59 · update #2
I think you'll find that the hard-drive you've installed is a SATA drive ... and unless you have the sata drivers (usually installed from a floppy disc) you're basically ... screwed ... I installed Vista on a SATA drive but had to load the Silicon Image SATA drivers from a USB pendrive which Vista recognised as it was installing (The most useful feature I've found with it so far)
If it is a SATA drive you have to find a way of loading the drivers before you load windows
2006-11-29 23:28:31 · answer #1 · answered by Ruthie Baby 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just ordered an upgrade for my Inspiron 4150, matter of fact, though I mistakenly ordered the wrong one (ordered a SATA connection but it's ATA). So I'd go on the Dell forums and see what other users are buying as upgrades.
2016-05-23 04:36:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you tryed going to the setup (F2) normally after starting the computer and seeing if the Bios is set up for the new drive?
2006-11-30 15:21:16 · answer #3 · answered by Sergeant 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you need to set up the bios to see the drive,
usually when the computer is starting you will se a prompt to hit f2 to enter setup go to setup and have it detect the drive.
good luck
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2006-11-30 15:53:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you minght have not plugged in the cabels properly that can be the only reason on earth for a new HDD not working
2006-11-29 23:12:49 · answer #5 · answered by Trinity 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋