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> FDISK acknowledges the drive in the laptop, Im Baffled!!!

> Hi all, i was hoping somone could help!
>
> A freind of mine gave me a toshiba satellite pro 500mhz . It has a smashed
> screen and a broken 5 gig hard drive,,,,so I thought Ah EBAY!
> So I bought a new 20 gig hard drive, and tried to install XP and Win 98,
>
> (i have laptop linked up to my pc monitor)
>
> Now it recognizesthe drive in the BIOS, and after partitioning it (100%)
> i tried to format it but laptop will not recognize C: But when i take the
> hard drive out and connect it to my PC with an IDE adapter Its Fine,, I can
> install any operating system on it,!! and again , when I put it back in the
> laptop ( with O/S on it) I still have no C: prompt and it will not read the
> drive. , but it is there in the bios ??.. I ran a scandisk on it in the PC
> ,( no erros or bad sectors)
>
> Ive never come across this before and was wondering if any of you guys had
> any ideas!!
>
> FDISK acknowledges the drive in the laptop, Im Baffled!!!
>
> Thanks
>
> Alan (Liverpool)
>
>

>
remove ALL partitions and FORMAT the HD while its in the laptop,
> nowhere else.
>
> This is common with laptop HDs that have come out of differing systems.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> James
>
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>
>
>

> Its probably got an improper master/slave/cable select configuration.
>
>
> alan n pip wrote:
>
> > Hi all, i was hoping somone could help!
> >
> > A freind of mine gave me a toshiba satellite pro 500mhz . It has a
smashed
> > screen and a broken 5 gig hard drive,,,,so I thought Ah EBAY!
> > So I bought a new 20 gig hard drive, and tried to install XP and Win
98,
> >
> > (i have laptop linked up to my pc monitor)
> >
> > Now it recognizesthe drive in the BIOS, and after partitioning it
(100%)
> > i tried to format it but laptop will not recognize C: But when i take
the
> > hard drive out and connect it to my PC with an IDE adapter Its Fine,, I
can
> > install any operating system on it,!! and again , when I put it back in
the
> > laptop ( with O/S on it) I still have no C: prompt and it will not read
the
> > drive. , but it is there in the bios ??.. I ran a scandisk on it in
the PC
> > ,( no erros or bad sectors)
> >
> > Ive never come across this before and was wondering if any of you guys
had
> > any ideas!!
> >
> > FDISK acknowledges the drive in the laptop, Im Baffled!!!
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Alan (Liverpool)
> >
> >

> Thanx for reply,, So do you know how I check that with a laptop,, Because
> there is no master slave select jumpers on L/top drives.. , Im stumped!!!
>
> Thanks
> Alan
> Barry Watzman wrote in message
> news:418C4B24.9070803@neo.rr.com...
> > Its probably got an improper master/slave/cable select configuration.
> >
> >
> > alan n pip wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all, i was hoping somone could help!
> > >
> > > A freind of mine gave me a toshiba satellite pro 500mhz . It has a
> smashed
> > > screen and a broken 5 gig hard drive,,,,so I thought Ah EBAY!
> > > So I bought a new 20 gig hard drive, and tried to install XP and Win
> 98,
> > >
> > > (i have laptop linked up to my pc monitor)
> > >
> > > Now it recognizesthe drive in the BIOS, and after partitioning it
> (100%)
> > > i tried to format it but laptop will not recognize C: But when i
take
> the
> > > hard drive out and connect it to my PC with an IDE adapter Its Fine,,
I
> can
> > > install any operating system on it,!! and again , when I put it back
in
> the
> > > laptop ( with O/S on it) I still have no C: prompt and it will not
read
> the
> > > drive. , but it is there in the bios ??.. I ran a scandisk on it in
> the PC
> > > ,( no erros or bad sectors)
> > >
> > > Ive never come across this before and was wondering if any of you guys
> had
> > > any ideas!!
> > >
> > > FDISK acknowledges the drive in the laptop, Im Baffled!!!
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Alan (Liverpool)
> > >
> > >
>
>

> Na!!! Still not working!!

> alan n pip wrote in message
> news:cmqvdu$ks6$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk...
> > Na!!! Still not working!!
>
> The BIOS may not support the size of hard-disk youre trying to install?
> Some things may not solve this. However, if you can boot up and partition
it
> then you should be able to do the normal installation...confoozing
>
>