I tried replacing my sata drive in my hp pavilion a1330n with my ide drive that was from my hp pavilion a510n. When i boot up the a1330n with the ide drive i get a blue screen saying that it has shut down windows but when i put it into my a510n it works fine. Can any one help me?

Check in your BIOS that the hard drives are set to IDE even if they are SATA.

Try setting the jumper on the IDE hard drive to SL (ie slave).

This model HP has a SATA disk controller.
You need a SATA DVD writer.
If you are not sure, when you remove the faulty DVD writer, take it with you when you go to purchase a nre DVD writer, make sure the new DVD writer has the same connectors as the faulty DVD writer.

1) Please make sure that the HDD IDE cable is plugged in properly on both ends. It is a 40 pin female cord which should be seated on IDE channel 1 on the motherboard.

2) Make sure that all the CD/DVD drives are on IDE 2 or on SATA

3) Make sure taht the Jumper setting on the back of the HDD is set to MASTER

4) Login to bios and make see if you can find the HDD from the IDE drives menu. I am sure you will. From Boot menu select the NATIVE mode that will activate both the SATA and the IDE channels. Select HDD as second boot device.

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.

I'm not sure you can insert your OS disk to istall or not, so the solution depends on your being able to do so. It seems to me there's a strong possibility that the BIOS cannot see the drive because that software had basic drivers to recognise the IDE Drive the computer came with.

So, you have to locate the SATA Driver which can be loaded during installation of the OS from either a boot cd or boot floppy. WIndows Setup gives you a chance at the beginning of setup if you watch the progress bar below to press F6 if you need to load a "Third Party or RAID driver" A little further along the setup will stop and prompt you for this driver and you'll need it ready with the exterior CD drive or floppy drive attached with the media in it to load.

It's quite possible this is what you're going to have to do. If this isn't the solution, please don't trash my rating with a thumbs down click. I'm trying to help without complete info.

Best Wishes

if hard drive show in the bios setting and not loading the window then your hard drive not work properly.change your hard drive.

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IDE will try to boot first when pluged in, sata will not boot. I think there is a adjustment in the BIOS setting to have the SATA boot first

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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

This is a sure sign that the drive is faulty or the ide connection. Try a different ide connector from the other ide cable in your computer if you are able.