I recently had a hard drive failure on my HP Pavilion a610n. I decided to replace the IDE drive with an SATA drive. However, the computer will not recognize the SATA drive. I have tried plugging the SATA drive into both the receptacles on the Motherboard as well as trying to plug it into a SATA to IDE adaptor and plugging that adaptor into the IDE plug where the original plug was plugged in. Nothing seems to help...the computer will not recognize the SATA drive. What do I need to do?

This kind of problem sometimes happens if the operating system files to start up on your laptop hard drive get corrupted. See if you can find instructions on youtube to take the hard drive out of your laptop, or see if there is a screw that holds it in your laptop. You will need to purchase a USB to IDE/SATA cable adapter to connect your laptop hard drive to another, working computer. Once the screw is out, and you remove the laptop hard drive, then plug one cable (IDE/SATA) into your hard drive, and the other end (USB) to the second computer that is working. You will also need to connect a power cable from your laptop hard drive to a separate power supply that comes in the USB to IDE/SATA cable kit. When the cables are connected, if your hard drive is usable, you should be able to see all the files from your laptop hard drive on the second computer. Now, you can copy them off before reinstalling your operating system/formatting your original laptop hard drive.

Test all leads that attach to your hard drive including electrical extensions IDE SATA

the leads from your MOTHERBOARD TO THE HARD DRIVE make sure they have a

secure dust free connections and are not faulty or just replace them they could be faulty if its a flat 40pin ide

this will be the first to fail

make sure all leads that are attached to your drives dvd\cd 3 1/2 inch floppy have secure dust free connections and are not faulty even the electical extensions

or just replace them they could be faulty a computer needs power and data to travel through every working device and continue its cycle and have an end so any faulty leads will end up with a computer error

I would suggest you pull the new hard drive out to make sure you've got the jumpers set correctly. Match them up with what you had on the old drive. Master / Slave / CS (cable select)

Once that's corrected you should be able to boot into the recovery cd so long as you set the boot options up correction in the bios.

Let me know if you get stuck.

Hello

The notebook you purchased uses a IDE Storage controller.

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Andrea

The size is not an issue with the hardware normally. Usually it has to do with the operating system. If you are running an OS like windows xp you should have no problem.

Just make sure you are using the SAME type interface hard drive. Example PATA Parallel ATA, or Serial ATA (SATA).

Hello.

If your computer will not boot try to first boot your hard drive in the BIOS. Make sure that the hard drive are inserted correctly replace the power cable in your hard drive also the SATA or IDE cable.

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ICmanServer

What mother board is it? you have sata and ide drives.. new technology is sata which is connected with sata cable to *********** board and appropriate pover coard, the older teconlogy is ide, which is connected with ide (master slave) cable frm you motehr board to you drive... just post what mother board and i could be more specific...

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melnavz

Right click on my computer, click on manage. Then on Disk Management. See if the drive shows up . If it does you can format it by right clicking and select format.

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u must check what tipe of hdd u have, ide or sata. if has a lot of pins is ide, if not is sata drive.