Re: Toshiba S1800-554 doesn't recognize Samsung MP0402H
- From: me@xxxxxxxxxxx (Ronnie)
- Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 21:27:39 GMT
On 4 Sep 2006 06:02:25 -0700, artur.peczak@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi.Following your other posts, this sounds a bit desparate to me. I'd
I want to replace hard disk in my old Toshiba S1800-554 laptop for a
new one. I bought a
Samsung MP0402H (40GB/5400rpm/8M/PATA) but my laptop doesn't recognize
it. Led on laptop's panel shine continously, BIOS can't detect new
device.
What is wrong? What should I do to take this drive work?
like to share a similar experience I had with my desktop machine - in
case your problem has some similar issues. I'd built a machine from
mainboard, case, 2 x HDD, etc, and the main disc, the disc with the OS
on, would not be recognised, so would not boot.
But the machine did boot, if I put my Windows CD in the CD drive,
booted from that, and selected 'load windows from HD' or some such
message. (The windows CD does not just reload windows over whatever I
had. Using W98SE, by the way.)
The machine also booted if I put a bootable floppy in.
In both cases, the machine booted, from the CD or the floppy, then
treated the C: drive as recognised as if there was nothing wrong! In
my case, it was only the initial switch on, and the first use of the
HD, that seemed to fail.
I also tried to alter, in the BIOS, the settings for the C: drive.
Instead of letting it use 'auto', I tried to set various Cyl, Head,
Sector (CHS) values - there were some on the drive, I think, or maybe
I retrieved them from the manufacturer's site. I had mixed success
with that.
The machine booted perfectly with the other HD, but I did not have the
OS on that drive. In the end, I replaced the IDE cable, and the boot
problem went away.
Could you try:
(i) booting from a floppy, and seeing if you can read/write the C:
drive?
(ii) booting from a CD, and seeing if you can read the C: drive?
(iii) even boot a Linux CD (try www.knoppix.net - 700MB download and
CD-R burn, or www.damnsmalllinux.com - 50MB download and CD-R burn)
and see if that will run and read the C: drive?
The Linux CDs have various drive tools which may help, but I'm not too
much of an expert on those. Another site to look at (especially if
you have a 200MB download service) is www.ultimateboot.com which may
have lots of software to help you see what the machine's problem is.
Anyway, my suggestion is just to start by trying to boot from a CD or
floppy, and see what happens. The advantage of that is that the
machine does NOT attempt to read the HD at that stage. Even just boot
into DOS or CP/M - just see if you can read the HD.
Let us know what happens.
______________
best wishes,
Ron
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