Hardware Analysis - New Hard Drive Setup problems..

Re: New Hard Drive Setup problems..

john albrich — 2008-04-04T23:33:07-05:00

I know this is an older thread, but I've read of other recent Travelstar problems too. Someone searching for help might find this thread. Something that may help is the IBM/Hitachi "ftool" program.

http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm
Note that while it supports most of the latest Deskstar and Travelstar HDDs, it does not support Travelstar 8E, 10E, or C4Kxx series.

Feature Tool
This is a DOS-bootable tool for changing various ATA features. The Feature Tool allows you to control some of the features of our Deskstar and Travelstar high performance ATA hard disk drives and supports 48-bit addressing, so it will work with the new large capacity drives.

This version adds support for our latest drives. Changes include:
Enhancement of SATA support
Enhancement of Capacity Clip Function

The Feature Tool allows you to:
Enable or disable the read-ahead or write cache.
Change the drive Automatic Acoustic Management settings to the:
Lowest acoustic emanation setting (Quiet Seek Mode), or
Maximum performance level (Normal Seek Mode).
Change the predefined capacity of the drive. This option can be used in situations where there is a BIOS limitation and the drive is not recognized. See the Users Guide for specific details.
Switch the Ultra DMA mode
Change Advanced Power Mode - allows you to change between the lowest power consumption and the highest power consumption (maximum performance level).
Show Drive Temperature - shows the current drive temperature in Celsius and Fahrenheit.
Configure SATA interface - adjust maximum speed and enable/disable Spread Spectrum Clocking.
Warning!: Switching your drive to support 3.0Gb/s, or enabling spread spectrum clocking and then using it, may render your drive unusable in a system that can't support these functions. If in doubt, please contact your system manufacturer.

Re: New Hard Drive Setup problems..

Gerritt — 2008-04-04T19:16:04-05:00

Tony,
I know it's been a while since you made this post.
Have you resolved your issue?
If not have you checked the SATA settings on the drive?
Some of the drives I am getting now ship in SATA-2 mode and others are shipping in SATA-1 mode. If the drive is jumpered (fewer and fewer of these nowadays), you may be able to shift the jumper, or change the SATA mode in BIOS (if it is permitted).
BTW, if you had HDD ATA Security turned on on the old drive, you'll have to disable this feature in BIOS in order for the system to see the new drive.
ONE last thing...Are you putting the drive into the correct drive bay?

Gerritt

Re: New Hard Drive Setup problems..

Tony w — 2007-03-17T19:09:34-05:00

the hard drive is exactly the same size as the old one,which is less than a year old..160gb..and i have refitted it several times , but keep getting the same message..its driving me mad.

Re: New Hard Drive Setup problems..

CrAsHnBuRnXp — 2007-03-17T19:07:22-05:00

Are you sure you connected it correctly? How big was yoru old hard drive? Was it less than 100GB? If so, your BIOS probably just needs to be flashed to be able to read the new hard drive.

New Hard Drive Setup problems..

Tony w — 2007-03-17T17:55:21-05:00

Hi..
I recently bought a new "Hitachi Travelstar 5K160 160GB 5400RPM" for my notebook .It is a HP Pavilion DV9000. When I installed the new drive ,and started up my notebook , I attempted to install Windows XP on it , however it says " Windows Does not detect Harddrive " . I restarted the notebook , and checked BIOS ,and I do not seem to see and harddrive showing up on it.How do i get my notebook to reconoise the drive and continue to install windows ??
Thanks in advance for the help !
Tony