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Re: this issue makes me want to die

Unlikely. Of course the laptop drive could be faulty!

Why not nip it down to a local PC repair store and ask them to see if they can get it going.

Take off the jumper.

Connect the adapter to the laptop drive

Connect the adapter to the primary ide controller via the standard ide cable. Remove any other drive on the primary IDE cable.

Remove the secondary ide cable (and therefore any other drives)

Start the PC and enter the BIOS

Ask the bios to search for new hard drives

If the drive is functioning it will then show up in the drives list.

That doesn't necessarily mean that the drive will boot - it will merely show that the circuitry is working correctly - but if the drive is bootable,

However, you can then save the bios settings and reboot. The PC should start up. But it might mess up the settings on that hard drive for laptop use, as Windows will try to detect all the hardware on that PC.

this issue makes me want to die

Okay. Lappy still doesn't work in the desktop.

I have looked at setup, and no matter what I do, I cannot get the IDE config to recognize that the laptop harddrive even exists. As soon as I plug it in, it ceases to recognize any IDE device on that cable. It must know its there to not detect the desktop drive it was just detecting a moment ago, but it says "not detected" for both primary IDE Master and primary IDE slave.

What do I do? Could it be my converter?

Is there a psossibility that my lappy drive is juts not compatible with the motherboard of my desktop?

Re: yes

Ahhh have you remembered to go into your BIOS settings to ensure that the drive is visible?

Try just plugging in that drive only, then start your PC and look at the bios settings for hard drives. You might need to make it search for it.

yes

It works just fine. And is bookmarked for quick references in my 'afraid is being a bitch again' folder. Afraid being my computer.

So my lappy harddrive still doesn't work in my desktop. I have used the adapter to try and get the thing working in every combination. The DHD (desktop hard drive) as master and the LHD as slave, both on cable select...I even tried putting the LHD on a second cable taking off my CDRW and DVD. I even tried putting just my LHD on the harddrive cable with the DHD not cnnected at all. No matter how I plug the damn thing into the system, always get 'reboot or inesert boot device into boot drive'. WTF?

Could this be a compatibility problem with my motherboard? Could it be the adapter? Do I need a boot disk in one of my drives in addition to connecting the LHD?

I Love You Too

But what do you mean by

Your site is officially bookmarked for future use

?

Doesn't the link in my sig work properly for you?

Re: just kidding

Ahhh - well they're not so easily found here! Plus most of that is shipping anyway. In fact its only £5.20 odd before tax & delivery charges.

You don't know how lucky you are living where you do - we get ripped off left/right & centre here (not by me, of course by the tax man etc) :lol

just kidding

I just need to scour the remains of my laptop for a jumper or make a trip to radio shack

but thank you so much. you've been divinely helpful.

and 16 quid is a lot more then the $7 I paid for my adapter especially when you tack international shipping onto it -_~ But such great advice and help is deserving of paying more.

i love you

Byut I still can't figure out what I'm supposed to. At least you sent me to something that at least looks like my damn harddrive.

What a way to win a girl over. Your site is officially bookmarked for future use although I am American. International shipping does not seem too logical.

So now I can identify what the jumper positions is, but I don't understand how to change it. All I see are four pins. Am I supposed to do something to the pins?

Re: no obvious jumpers?

There are pins on the hard drive that you need to short (just like a normal drive 3.5").

They should be indicated on the drive itself, but you might need to go to the IBM website if the instructions aren't there.

Which drive is it, and I'll try and find out for you.

PS/ I don't recall you ordering it from us? tch tch.


Bog Standard IBM/Hitachi TravelStar Jumper Documentation here!

Incidentally, we charge £16 all in for the 2.5" to 3.5" converter - which includes drive rails (but no jumper :lol )

no obvious jumpers?

Okay.
So I'm trying to put my dell laptop (inspiron 8000/latitude c800) hard drive into my desktop. I got the adapter and all that, but I can't figure out how to turn the laptop hard drive into a slave drive. There are no obvious jumpers to set for this. Please help me and my poor comatose hoard of files

Drive Fitness Test

If you have a dell laptop then you are probably using IBM hard drive. Go to ibm's website and download a software called "Drive Fitness Test" (DFT). It will not only test your damaged hard drive but can also fix it. I fixed my Dell hard drive with it in August and now its working fine. DFT will erase your original data but save your hard drive.

Re: Dell Support

Just an aside on this.

RAMMShack do a lovelly piece of kit that will allow you to install your laptop IDE hard drive in a standard PC for £16 inc VAT & Delivery. You'll need a jumper to turn it into a slave, but 2.5" to 3.5" drive rails are included, as well as the IDE adapter.

Dell Support

Taking of Dell...

I'm generally very happy with the 3 laptops I've bought through them...

However this one is playing up. A call to Dell support yesterday got me through to 'Mary'. I think 'Mary' was sitting in Bombay!

No success with 'Mary' - grasp of English a problem.. So I went to www.dell.co.uk/fast - you can raise a support call and they aim to reply in an hour. I was sent a link to a diagnostic tool, sent the error message back, and now a new hard drive is on the way.

So if you're looking to raise a call, I suggest this Email method...

No longer get the chance to speak to young Irish girlies... Suddenly Dell aren't as appealing!!

fujitsu disk recovery

The review on many boards about how good Fujitsu drives are do not seem to mention how some Fujitsu mpg and mpf series ie mpg3102at and mpg3204at drives are failing prematureley.

After some frustrating weeks from Fujitsu we had valuable data recovered from a batch of our office machines that all suddenly failed. This company www.Computer-Recovery.com recovered all the data. but companies reffered to us by Fujitsu support could not recover any data !!!.. very useless.

Re: Thanks

no probs,
the warrrenty is probably pointless. with fijitsu the warranty is for 3 years but that is with their end user ie dell. as dell gave only given a 1 year warrenty fujitsu can't help unless dell goes into liquidation.