Replacing laptop HDD

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From: High Life
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 03:33

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I just brought a replacement HDD (IBM 5GB) for a laptop (KTX880) and tried
to install it but the its having trouble recognising the drive. Are there
any special procedures for installing laptop HDD?

I get varying degrees of success with no real pattern, once the BIOS
recognised the drive as a 5GB (which it is) but would not recognise the
drive when I rebooted, other times when I boot - the sytem specs screen show
the drive as anything from 'None' to 8MB to 19MB!? But if I manage to boot
to a floppy (which I can only manage occasionally), FDISK will not find any
drives no matter what the BIOS thinks.

The old drive was a 1.3GB drive, could the BIOS version be the problem? If
this is the case is there anything I can do as KTX have gone out of business
and I dont think I'll be able to find a BIOS upgrade anywhere for this
machine.

What else could be causing this erratic HDD recognition?

Any help much appreciated.

Cheers
Jase

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