Replaced my hard drive and laptop is not recognizing the new one.

That means that your operating system is not being recognized on your hard drive. More than likely your hard drive is not being recognized. It could mean that your hard drive has fried. That does not mean that if you have pictures on it that you have lost them. A PC Shop can still possibly recover your data. First you need to go into your bios and look under boot order to see if your hard drive is listed. As the computer is booting it should tell you which button to hit. It is usually F2, but pay attention as you boot. You can find out for sure if you google your model number and how to enter bios.

ok, First you should understand the new hard drive is empty, it is not even formatted. At this point the most likely issue is the bios not recognizing the Hard Drive because the Bios is not set to automatically detect the hard drive. Enter the Bios and go to the hard Drive selection sub menu and have the computer automatically detect the hard drive size and type. Then go to the boot sequence menu and alter the boot order to CDROM, Floppy (If you have one), Hard Drive, Network. Reboot the computer and you should see the RAM test, hard Drive Identification and then the CDROM should start to boot. I can't be more specific about the steps because your post didn't include the model of the laptop. All of this assumes your CDROM is still in working order since HP laptops have a known issue with CDROM's going out for no reason. The hard way for dealing with this would be to get an encloser to put a hard drive in to make it portable and connect to another computer and do the partitioning and formatting of that new drive on the other computer and solve the problem that way.

Have you Disabled AHCI and Enabled IDE in BIOS?

Hi Maltomeal

it seems you know your way around notebooks.
My first suggestion is to take the new hard drive out, and put the old one into the new computer to see if it will at least boot up.

Since I don't know the operating system or the type of format that was on your old hard drive, it is possible that the current operating system you are using will not recognize the old one.

If the hard drive boots up, and it may not recognize some of the drivers because its a different computer configuration, you should still be able to backup to a thumb drive.

If the hard drive does not boot up, then your hard drive has lost its information. You might need to take the hard drive to a data recovery company like ontrack.

thanks adi

well there is a solution so first check the type of hard drive in your ibook and check if any of your friends have an ibook, if so replace hard drive with yours and you can extract your data if your hard drive is working.

good luck.

In this case if your laptop runs occasionally sometimes not. The prom the is the faulty cable which is connected to the HDD and CD drive. Try to replace the connector cable with the other one. Check also the BIOS setting of the HDD and CD drive.

Regards
nicole

Well, according to http://www.clearanceclub.com/depot/quelle_showroom.cgi?sku=4768 your laptop has a 80GB Enhanced IDE drive, so you'd be looking for any 2.5' IDE laptop drive.
Any computer store will be able to sell you one.

That said, you mention your hard drive is fried, but you also say you want to take the old media files off it? Well, if the hard drive is fried, there is nothing coming off it because..well.. its fried.
But if the drive works you dont need a new one. But sounds like you do need to format and reinstall the Operating System.

Does your BIOS recognize the new hard drive?
Are you reinstalling from a Toshiba recovery disk or an operating system disk?

Additionally, there is a setting in the BIOS to turn on or off ACPI function for the hard drive. Find this in the BIOS, change it, and try reinstalling again.

When it works, be sure to change it back after installation.

Good luck.
tony

You need a restore cd that would have come withe the laptop. Otherwise you'll need to install an O/S

Open the hard drive bay and make sure the hard drive is properly seated. close bay

reboot and enter bios to see if hard drive is detected in bios, if the hard drive is detected and still will not boot use recovery console to recover the OS.<ALT><F10>

If the bios does not recognize tthe hard drive, replace hard drive.