Hard drive compatible with gateway 300xl desktop computer

There may be a compatibility issue, or the hard drive is not working properly.

You have a problem with the operating system. It has crashed. You will need to reinstall the operating system in your computer. Before you do that you need to back up your file in your hard drive.To do that you need a 2nd computer get a hard-drive closure external take out the hard drive of your gateway. and plug it in to the external closure and plug it in the computer and explorer and move the files you need to the other computer. After that put the hard drive back into the gate

Your computer came with a recovery disc. Use that to reinstall your computer and software. That will help your problem. Update your computer to make sure it doesn't fail again.

Laptop hard drives are compatible to any laptops as long as the connectors are the same. ATA to ATA or SATA to SATA.

If your IBM hard drive is a laptop hard drive, it will not be compatible with a desktop. Desktop hard drives are 3.5 inches in size while notebooks or laptop hard drives come in 2.5 inches.

Hope this helps.

Anything you have should fit in there, you will have to upgrade the operating system, but the hard drive shouldn't be a problem so long as the computer is new enough to auto configure the hard drive.

Take the disk-drive back to the computer-store,
along with your computer, and exchange the new disk-drive for one that is compatible with your computer. Within 15 seconds of viewing the "inside" of your Gateway, they should be able to identify the correct model of disk-drive that will be compatible with your current motherboard.

Or, the more-expensive option: buy a PCI add-in card to add a 'SAS-compatible' interface (although I've never heard of such an interface!!!!) to your computer.

For just the data, get an ide to usb converter and connect it to the new computer, and just drag and drop.
You cant move an entire hard drive to a new computer because of driver issues, but you can use windows built in files and settings transfer utility.

IDE to USB: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812232002

The Gateway M465-e is only compatible the SATA hard disk drives. If the drive you are using is not a SATA drive, then it will not be able to work with your hard drive.

How do you know 2 hard drives have failed, have the hard drives been fin in another computer.

most likely the OS is corrupt on the disks caused my another hardware issue, most likey Motherboard IDE/sata controller.

http://support.gateway.com/support/drivers/getFile.asp?id=20099&dscr=SoundMAX%20Integrated%20Digital%20Audio%20DriverVersion:%205.12.01.5240&uid=237130002

try this driver, download and extract it to a new folder, from your device manager, select update driver on the sound driver and point to the new folder

let me know how you get on

if it does not goes past the gate way screen then my firend check the hard disk is it connected and check in bios if its detected there other wise change ur hard disk and go