380ED HDD replacement - doesn't want to boot
Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 5:53 am
I'm scratching my head for several days:
In my 380ED (type 2635-6A0) the built in 3GB died. I bought a replacement Hitachi 30GB 4200rpm, installed in the notebook. Made a new partition using FDISK, sized at 2048MB then rebooted. From this moment I cannot boot neither from HDD nor Floppy. Floppy starts booting, then flashes the HDD led and booting stops at "Starting MS-DOS..." with no error message given. I tried Win98 boot disk, same happens. I disabled both config.sys and autoexec.bat on boot disks, doesnt' help.
When I put the new drive to another notebook and finished formatting drive C: and putting system on it, it worked very well in that notebook. But when I put the HDD back to 380ED, it doesn't boot, it stucks - no error given, blank screen.
The BIOS is the latest (FWW49 or something like that), booting order is set properly, I don't know what the hell is going on
Anybody has an idea?
In my 380ED (type 2635-6A0) the built in 3GB died. I bought a replacement Hitachi 30GB 4200rpm, installed in the notebook. Made a new partition using FDISK, sized at 2048MB then rebooted. From this moment I cannot boot neither from HDD nor Floppy. Floppy starts booting, then flashes the HDD led and booting stops at "Starting MS-DOS..." with no error message given. I tried Win98 boot disk, same happens. I disabled both config.sys and autoexec.bat on boot disks, doesnt' help.
When I put the new drive to another notebook and finished formatting drive C: and putting system on it, it worked very well in that notebook. But when I put the HDD back to 380ED, it doesn't boot, it stucks - no error given, blank screen.
The BIOS is the latest (FWW49 or something like that), booting order is set properly, I don't know what the hell is going on
Anybody has an idea?