Author Topic: New hard drive. (Read 12058 times)

offerman · « **on:** August 08, 2006, 08:42:45 AM »

Hi There, I`m new to this board and would appreciate any help, I have a laptop from a friend who`s asked me to look at it for her. It doesn`t appear to have a system running on it, maybe she formatted it or something. When i try and load an Xp disk, it starts to set up, then says, windows couldn`t continue to install as the hard drive is corrupt.
Without getting an adapter to transfer the HDD to my pc and trying to formatt it from there, my question is, could i just tell her to buy a new HDD and i can do a straight swap with the broken one?? Is it that simple to just swap new to old housing?Her Laptop is less than 2 years old!!

Many thanks for any help.

panboy · « **Reply #1 on:** August 08, 2006, 09:06:37 AM »

You should be able to Replace the HDD pretty Easily , but first you should make sure that it is the Hard Drive that Broken and not some other major problem

if you can Get you hands on one of those laptop HDD connectors and try it on a computer. if not

you'll need to know the model of the Laptop and Hard Drive to make sure you get the Right parts, post them up here and some of the people more familiar with laptops will be sure to help.

as far as i know laptop hard drives are pretty Standard, but theres always a Few Black Sheep

offerman · « **Reply #2 on:** August 08, 2006, 09:11:20 AM »

Thanks for your reply, The make of the laptop is a Fujitsu Siemens Computers XP.
If i was to buy a device to connect the hard drive from the laptop to my pc would this be compatable with most HDD so if other people asked me for help I could test there`s aswell?

panboy · « **Reply #3 on:** August 08, 2006, 09:19:51 AM »

If you have the Entire Model Number of the Laptop could you post it Fujitsu Siemens have made Quite a Few

As far as i know most laptop Drives have the Same Interface, but there are a Few Non-standard ones

If you can Take it out, and Read off the Model Number, we can Look it up and Tell you if its all Good, ill properly only be online for a bout an hour more but there a plenty of other people on the Forum who might help you out , if there so inclined

Remeber always be Carefull

offerman · « **Reply #4 on:** August 08, 2006, 09:22:26 AM »

I am quite sure it is the HDD that is broken, BUT i`m open to suggestions on how to see if its anything else.

I checked the boot order of the Bios and that is ok.

offerman · « **Reply #5 on:** August 08, 2006, 09:23:44 AM »

Ok, will do apprentice, i`ll try and get that posted within the next 10mins.

offerman · « **Reply #6 on:** August 08, 2006, 09:31:48 AM »

Ok, here are the numbers.

100278185 rev c

The next numbers are next to barcodes on the drive

100281579

then another bar coded number
c04973

Hope this helps you to identify.

Thanks

offerman · « **Reply #7 on:** August 08, 2006, 09:36:13 AM »

Just found another number on the reverse of the drive if this helps,

Model, ST 94019A

panboy · « **Reply #8 on:** August 08, 2006, 09:42:34 AM »

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Ok, here are the numbers.

100278185 rev c

The next numbers are next to barcodes on the drive

100281579

then another bar coded number
c04973

Hope this helps you to identify.

Thanks

100278185 rev c I'm Sorry bu i think this is the Serial Number, not the Model Number .. model Numbers are usually a Set of Capital Letters Followed by a number Eg: EM-5210 Thats the number of my desk top in my Office, and the same go for the HDD numbers you gave

offerman · « **Reply #9 on:** August 08, 2006, 09:47:37 AM »

Just found another number on the reverse of the drive if this helps,

Model, ST 94019A

unlovedwarrior · « **Reply #10 on:** August 08, 2006, 09:49:42 AM »

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Just found another number on the reverse of the drive if this helps,

Model, ST 94019A

isnt this the model # panboy?

panboy · « **Reply #11 on:** August 08, 2006, 10:05:32 AM »

That look like one alright, Sorry go hung up working... after all i dont get paid to help people ^.^

Any ill look that up , and see if its standard

offerman · « **Reply #12 on:** August 08, 2006, 10:07:33 AM »

Panboy, Any help is much appreciated, so thanks for the free advice.

Is there anything i could do to see if the problem lies with something else other than the hard drive??

squirrel · « **Reply #13 on:** August 08, 2006, 10:10:43 AM »

swap HDs with another machine. see if the HD works in the other machine. see ifthe other HD works in your machine.

unlovedwarrior · « **Reply #14 on:** August 08, 2006, 10:11:31 AM »

u can try resetting the bios? maybe that might help.. ummm try unplugging the power soucre from the hdd and waitng 30 secs then plugging it back in then try to turn it on. tr yone at a time, if panboy says that might help, the resetting of the bios might, unless the hdd is dead then u'll just need to get a new one

offerman · « **Reply #15 on:** August 08, 2006, 10:12:53 AM »

Cheers squirrel, only prob is would that fit in my tower on Dell pc? Otherwise i don`t have adapter at the mo.:-(

squirrel · « **Reply #16 on:** August 08, 2006, 10:15:16 AM »

if it's from a similar PC, it should. most of the HDs i've seen are pretty much the same size.

panboy · « **Reply #17 on:** August 08, 2006, 10:15:44 AM »

http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/specs/ata/st94019a.html

This look to be your Hard Drive, and its a Segate, looks to me like its one of the Standard production line, there are manual's on that Site

You might want to check the Spec's against any new one you are going to buy

i would try to buy a replacement Seagate of the Same Model, that way you will eliminate any possible problems

tucker42 · « **Reply #18 on:** August 08, 2006, 11:07:14 PM »

Why don't you just test the hard drive first with the Seatest utility if it is a Seagate drive???

offerman · « **Reply #19 on:** August 09, 2006, 04:09:50 AM »

What Utility? How do i do this?

panboy · « **Reply #20 on:** August 09, 2006, 04:15:50 AM »

http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/

You can get it on this page, one click away for the Page i reefed you to Earlier

offerman · « **Reply #21 on:** August 09, 2006, 04:27:08 AM »

Thanks Panboy, but if i can`t get online let alone get an OS up and running on the laptop how can i run the prog. I can`t save it to disk as its live!

Thanks

GX1_Man · « **Reply #22 on:** August 09, 2006, 04:27:18 AM »

These posts have really rambled on. The short approach is to make sure the hard drive is jumpered correctly and that it is seen in the BIOS. If not, that has to be dealt with.

Then boot with a Windows CD, delete ALL partitions, create one, format it and try to install.

If that doesn't work post the exact problem. It may well be that the hard drive is kaput. (That was the reason you were given the machine initially, yes?)

I think we are making this harder than it has to be unless I missed something.

offerman · « **Reply #23 on:** August 09, 2006, 04:45:13 AM »

Whats does, A device enclosed in Parenthesis has been disabled in the corresponding type menu , mean?? How do i rid this message in the bios boot device priorority sectioN??

offerman · « **Reply #24 on:** August 09, 2006, 04:46:23 AM »

whne i check them all they are all on.

panboy · « **Reply #25 on:** August 09, 2006, 05:01:29 AM »

The Prgram on the Segate site Can be burnt to a Disk, and then Booted off, thats how that works

But im think from what you have Said in this post ant the other , your disk is Broken, you just need to buy a new one.

offerman · « **Reply #26 on:** August 09, 2006, 05:19:05 AM »

Panboy, i think you are right.
Many thanks to everyone who has helped with lots of info, apologise for wasting your time.

panboy · « **Reply #27 on:** August 09, 2006, 05:37:22 AM »

I wouldn't Be here if i didn't want to waste Time! err wait i mean Help the Needy err yea thats it ^.^

Its all good its what i like to Do

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