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570e won't recognize 80GB drive
Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 8:12 pm
by GnatGoSplat
I picked up a Seagate 80GB 5400.3 drive. I ghosted the old 15GB drive onto the 80GB drive. I put the 80GB drive in my 570e and nothing. The machine POSTS, but when it should be booting, it's just a blank screen with a blinking cursor. Nothing happens. When I go into BIOS, it recognizes the model # of the drive (ST980815A) in the boot order setup.
Is this drive simply too big for the 570e?
Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 8:21 pm
by pianowizard
I have seen people use 80GB drives on their 570E. I was going to recommend getting the latest BIOS but none of the BIOS changes for 570E mentions adding support for larger HDD's, so I don't think updating the BIOS would help. My guess is you didn't ghost the old drive properly. Also, is it serial or parallel ATA? You want parallel.
Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 10:04 pm
by GnatGoSplat
Strange.
I used Partition Magic and tried shrinking the primary partition to 40GB, 20GB, and 15GB. No joy there.
My desktop machine recognizes the drive and files just fine. I don't know what the problem might be, I'll try ghosting it again, but on a USB 1.1 connection that takes about 3hrs for the 5GB used in my 15GB drive.
Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 12:27 pm
by GnatGoSplat
Woohoo! It works now! Turned out for some reason, I just couldn't use Ghost. I spent a total of 14hrs trying to use Ghost. I tried ghosting from 570e to new drive via USB-to-IDE, tried ghosting to an image on my desktop machine, opened my desktop machine and tried plugging it in directly via IDE, basically wasted a ton of time and nothing worked.
Then I tried Acronis True Image and it worked first time!