new hard drive issues

[jeepin1]

I have an older hp pavillion 7966, the orginal hard drive died a few days ago. I also plugged the hard drive into another system and there is no getting any data from it. (Nothing important, so its ok.) So i bought a new hard drive for it and I have a few copies of xp from other builds. So here is my problem, I can partition the drive and it reboots for the install. Then the bios doesn't show any hard drive. If I run the setup from the cd again, it will show the drive with the partition. Also the new hard drive is a western digital 320 gb.

Thanks in advance for any comments.

 

[stduc]

What are you saying here?

Are you cloning XP from another system? Or re-installing it from scratch?

If you cold boot and go straight into the BIOS screen is the HDD shown then?

Does that BIOS support large drives? You may need to flash the BIOS?

[navy]When I married "Miss Right" I didn't realise her first name was 'always'. LOL[/navy]

 

[jeepin1]

I am installing from scratch. A cold boot into BIOS and no hard drive is shown. The system is rather old, after I posted the drive being to large did cross my mind. I think your right about the BIOS not supporting a large drive. I'll have to find a much smaller drive and see if I have any issues.

 

[kjv1611]

Well, you may not have to replace the new drive altogether, if you still want to use it. Many of the drives like that have a jumper setting that will limit the size to the BIOS of older systems, so that it'll be more likely to work. See if your drive has that option, and try it if so.

 

[goombawaho]

At some point, you might consider retirement of that machine as it's marginally worth a new hard drive.

 

[kjv1611]

There you go with that age discrimination stuff again.

 

[goombawaho]

Right. I'll take the 25 year old and you can be happy with the 50 year old. Seems fair to me. All in favor??? But seriously:

Or do we need to bring out the speech about how the power supply could go any minute and, if replaced, (combined with this new hard drive) would mean that you're in the red in terms of the PC worth vs. money spent on this old computer.

 

[kjv1611]

True. I'm just assuming he already has the drive, which means $0 to spend at this point. If another part fails, THEN he'll end up spending more dough.

 

[tlcscousin]

When looking at the support for that computer it shows that there might only be one IDE slot and that the drive needs to be set cable select. Most Hard Drives come from the factory set with jumpers at master. Set the jumper to cable select and see if the Bios then sees the drive.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...=useCategory&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&product=67009

 

[kjv1611]

Good catch, cuz!

jeepin1,

Give tlcscousin's suggestion a try, and post back with the results. If it works, it'll definitely be the best option given so far.