Posted by Ralph on April 09, 19101 at 11:06:02:
Just installed a new Quantum Fireball Plus AS 30gb hd in my HP Pavilion PII/400 PC. Had an existing 9.6gb Quantum Bigfoot that was giving me a SMART imminent failure message. Followed instructions from HP to add the new hd as slave, and used a new (24") 80 conductor cable. Ran FDISK, formatted the new hd, copied the files from the old hd, then switched the jumpers and the connectors to make the new hd the master and the old one the slaeve. Got the message "operating system not found", so I disconnected the old hd completely, attached the master connector to the new hd, set the jumper for DS (got the same result setting the jumper for CS), and still get the same error message. BIOS shows the new hd as the primary master, but when I run the HP Recovery program I get an error message that says no hard drive present. Even when I use the old cable and the old hd, disconnecting the new hd, I still get the same message--"operating system not found". Have I screwed things up royally, or what?