I have an Hp530 laptop, whose motherboard got defective. This one had an 80GB SATA Hitachi 5400 rpm drive. I also have a Dell M90 notebook with a SATA fujitsu 7200 rpm drive. I wanted to recover data from my Hitachi drive so i took it out and installed it in M90. Now M90's bios show that the drive in installed an reports its capacity correctly, but the system doesn't boot from it not does it seem to read data from it. I also tried booting from a linux live cd i have and then tried reading the drive but it also is unable to do so. Can some one tell if what's wrong here? I remember my Hp530 bios had an option of bit-shift/LBA assisted encoding for HDD and once i had one selected and wrote some thing on HDD the other encoding didn't work. But there is not such option in my Dell M90's bios. So what can i do here?
You cannot take a hard drive out of your faulty HP laptop and insert it into any laptop and expect it to run/boot up. When Windows is installed on a laptop, it is configured with device drivers for that particular laptop and it wont work in another laptop with different devices.
Replace the Dell's hard drive back into its laptop and the Dell should function normally.
To recover data off the SATA Hitachi hard drive, connect this hard drive into an USB hard drive adapter and then plug this adapter with the Hitachi hard drive into the USB port of your Dell. The Dell will detect the Hitachi as an external Mass storage device. You can then open the various folders and files to back up your data onto the Dell laptop or USB memory stick.
If you want to, you can use the Hitachi hard disk as an USB external hard drive by installing it into an USB SATA hard drive enclosure.
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I'd like you to get into your bios. At the main bios window make sure your bios is seeing the hard drive correctly (model number). Also check that your cdrom is listed. While in the Bios go to boot & correct the boot order. 1st should be cdrom, 2nd should be your new Hitachi.
You mentioned you connected it to a PC. Than you installed WinXP & everything went fine. Disk read error means your laptop does not like the FAT. When you bought the Hitachi did you get a disk utility? If not download it from the link provided here & test your drive. Use the disk utility to set up your new drive & format
it with the utility. Try again to boot to your cdrom & install WinXP. If your XP does not include SP1 or SP2 your drive may show a smaller size.
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm
Good luck, I hope the disk utility fixs the problem.
http://www.hitachigst.com/tech/techlib.nsf/techdocs/50C8DBC2A315A4C786256F400065B756/$file/7K100_SATA_FINAL_DS.pdf (Info)
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Sounds like your hard drive may be going out, do a check disc.
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i think your cmos cell is not working properly.
refix it or replace it.
it is back side of laptop,
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Your new hard drive needs to be an ATA which is the same as IDE. 160gb drives run ~$60 on ebay.
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The best way to install it is through an internal 2nd drive (fastest) or an external usb drive. I use Casper to do a mirror drive back up from the C drive to the new drive. After that you just need to install the new drive in your drive caddy and you are ready to go, the new drive is an exact copy but bigger. Casper is also an ideal back up utility, if your C drive packs up you always have a bootable spare ready.The first backup can take several hour depending on your second drive connection and following backups need to do only the last changes, usually a few minutes.
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If you can get to the CMOS battery, there should be a set of jumpers close by that should say Clear CMOS or CMOS reset, or something to that effect. There are usually 3 pins, and the jumper is between 2 of them. Remove the jumper and put back over the pin that was open, and the pin next to it that was jumped before. Leave it for a few seconds, then put back to original position. This should clear the bios, and all you in.
Here is a link to the laptops manual
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ins2600/en/index.htm
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