Which of Hitachi Hard discs could be a better replacement for model HTS541080G9SA00???

click start control panel administrative tools computer management device manager scroll down universal serial bus controllers you could see a yellow question / exclamation mark? ! or a red X

you will need to update/reinstall drivers

right click to reinstall drivers

if you can see your usb drive but its not working
ports(com&lpt)right click update driver
hope this helps

You need a data recovery. This guy does it remotely and only asks for donations. http://FreeDataRecovery.us

TRY IN COMPUTER MGMT THERE ARE OPTIONS THAT MAY HELP YOU, IF IT DOES NOT SHOWUP IN "MY COMPUTER" THEN MAYBE THERE IS A OS STILL IN THE DRIVE,THEN YOU WILL HAVE TO FORMAT.......USUALLY NTFS.......OR ERASE DRIVE HOPE THIS HELPS

It _could_ be a disk-drive problem -- excessive "retry" operations within the disk-drive, while trying to write data to the disk-drive, or while trying to read from the disk-drive.

Search online for "Hitachi Drive Fitness" testing software, and run it.

If the disk-drive is "out-of-warranty", consider replacing it, before it completely "fails".

You would need to use a "usb" to hard drive cable. It looks like this: http://gizmodo.com/168149/brando-sataeide-to-usb-20-cable

Then, it is simply a matter of "cloning." The other alternative is to find a pc repair shop with a hard drive duplicator. It will copy much faster.

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Hi
There are no jumpers to set on a SATA drive since they all use individual interfaces with the motherboard.
All you can do is connect the drive you want as master to the first SATA header,slave to the second,and then set the boot priority in BIOS.
They don't have jumper pins like the old days.
Post again if you have questions,and if this helps would you rate my post?
Bob

Ant SATA hard drive will work, try ebay for a better price, but TigerDirect.com is a good place to start

I found this page on ebay for you: http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_npmv=3&_trksid=m570&_nkw=Hitachi+Travelstar+5K160+

Spend the money and go with a 7200 rpm drive, 160, 320, or 250 gb hard drives are all under 100 bucks these days.

Hi,

No the drive is not customized at all. It is a standard SATA Data and Power connector. However, if it was already mounted in a laptop chances are the laptop manufacturer may have put an adapter on the connector end to allow for tight right angle insertion into the laptop chassis which isn't possible with the stock connectors without leaving the drive loose in it's slot.

If this is the case grabbing the connector and pulling straight away from the drive should pop it loose and reveal the stock SATA connectors under it.

If you're having troubles removing this peice, comment back with the make and model# of the laptop it came out of and I'll see if I can pull a diagram for you.


Chris

I would temporarily attach it directly to your laptop and go into recovery console and do a chkdsk /r on that drive

see if that helps, if not then there are things you can do.

post back for more info