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New Hitachi HD for T60 2007 4AU - install issues
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 12:26 pm
by LacquerHead
So I purchased a Hitachi 2.5" SATA HD, 200 GB and 7200 RPM. I was trying to install it, but the XP boot disk said that it did not find a HD in the notebook, what possible reason can there be for this issue? Is there some switch on the HD itself I have to switch on? As soon as I put my old HD back in it booted up fine. Thanks!
Re: New Hitachi HD for T60 2007 4AU - install issues
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 12:31 pm
by mgo
LacquerHead wrote:So I purchased a Hitachi 2.5" SATA HD, 200 GB and 7200 RPM. I was trying to install it, but the XP boot disk said that it did not find a HD in the notebook, what possible reason can there be for this issue? Is there some switch on the HD itself I have to switch on? As soon as I put my old HD back in it booted up fine. Thanks!
Go into bios and set the drive to compatability mode rather than AHPI (or whatever the letters are)....that will fix it. Common problem, lots of people get caught by that.
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 12:33 pm
by TPA
go in to bios, and under sata change from ahci to compatibility, reboot and try installing xp
Worked
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 1:31 pm
by LacquerHead
Thanks, that worked like a charm. Formatting partition now.