LAPTOP FORUM

> 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)
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