Technology Laptop not recognizing new harddrive

So I'm installing a 500gb Seagate harddrive, to replace my 120gb Western Digital drive in my HP dv6700. I had successfully installed a 500 gig Western Digital drive before, but I screwed up the drive somehow, and now it just wont work. So, hence the Seagate drive.

I put the drive in, loaded in a Windows XP cd (just a temp before I load W7), and waited. Once I pressed enter to install the OS, it told me that no harddrive was detected. Is this something in the bios that wont detect anything other than WD drives?

Dunno if this is similar, but I just got done with a fews days of Windows based rage due to a BSOD total meltdown on my Dell 8400.
The problem was due to an "iaStor.sys" shutdown.
iaStor.sys, as far as I've researched up to this point, is a driver that let's Windows literally talk to the hard drive.

You may have to go into setup on startup and boot from a cd, install some new drivers and/or updated BIOS and see if it'll take that way.
One thing I learned too, is to go directly to each manufacturers website and update drivers and software that way; don't rely solely on Windows/Microsoft updates.

Hope this helped, at least a little.

Possibly. I checked the specs on the WD drive that I screwed up, but it had 3.0gbps transfers, and so does this new one, although the new one isint being recognized by my laptop. I just ran the system diagnostic check on the harddrive in my BIOS, and the new drive passed both the quick and the comprehensive tests, and yet the Windows XP installer disc still wouldnt recognize the drives presence, when I had no trouble with the WD drives that I've used in the past on this laptop.

Here are links to the two drives. The Seagate is the one I'm trying to install. The Western Digital is the one I fried a while ago, but worked with no problem.

Seagate:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicat...?EdpNo=4319028&csid=ITD&body=MAIN#detailspecs

Western Digital:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicat...p?EdpNo=4322423&sku=W10-7314&srkey=WD5000BEVT

Try a good old Google search for your problem with whatever variety of search parameters it takes to track down some good leads on your problem. Many times these are actually well recognized, common problems that have been addressed by various vendors and manufacturers...but they don't get a lot of publicity.

Shit's frustratin', ain't it?

Every time I had to hard re-boot I thought to myself; "Yeah, I'll reboot alright, boot yer fukkin' electronic ass right out the fukkin' window!"

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Ah, fuckit. I decided to install Windows Vista (ugh, so sick of it) and then W7. Apparently, Vista supports more variety of SATA hard drives, so it took it immediately and then everything worked out from there!

Which makes me wonder why it worked from the same XP disc I used here on my desktop from XP to 7...

I dunno. Both of my computers are running W7 now, so I'm not complaining.

bluetard117;363127 said:

Ah, fuckit. I decided to install Windows Vista (ugh, so sick of it) and then W7. Apparently, Vista supports more variety of SATA hard drives, so it took it immediately and then everything worked out from there!

Which makes me wonder why it worked from the same XP disc I used here on my desktop from XP to 7...

I dunno. Both of my computers are running W7 now, so I'm not complaining.

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