About notebook drives :/

[Incog Neato]

I found the specs to my damnable drive: 193.128.183.41/home/v3__product.asp?pid=242&L=en

I'm thinking about replacing it but dunno if any old notebook drive (20 GB - 40 GB, I guess. Is there a way to check what the max size supported is in the BIOS?) would do. I guess it'll help if the pins matched up. :P

I don't understand IDE or EIDE or ATA or SATA. I can see that it's an ATA - 5 but ... dur ... ^^;;; I guess an ATA 100 won't do? ^^~

I'm looking at drives here:
canadacomputers.com/main.php?do=ShowProdList&cmd=pl&id=HD.517
and
www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/category/category_slc.asp?Nav=|c:1277|
and
www.directcanada.com/category/?minorcatid=1482

I guess I should look around some more too since these are some icky prices. :/

For what it's worth, my laptop's a geezing old HP Pavilion zt1130. The battery actually doesn't work either! XD Oh, and the problem with the drive is that I can't boot into Windows XP. It keeps rebooting every time it tries to load it up. This happens with every configuration I choose (Safe mode, safe mode with command prompt, last known good, etc.).

I'm also quite certain it's a drive issue cuz I can boot off the recovery CD without the drive installed but it cannot get past the driver loading screen if it's plugged it. :/

Hopefully, someone can help. ToT!

Happy holidays! Merry Christmas (Eve) to everyone!

[FM-77AV]

IDE, EIDE, ATA, PATA, ATA100, ATA133, it's all the same.

SATA is different. Yours is an old ATA drive. Get another. Doesn't matter which. Just don't get a SATA one.

[rocket]

HP Pavilion zt1130 intel celeron made around the pIII era.

most likely using ich 7 bus controller... means nothing to most.

the hard drive was mostlikely and ata66 based drive as ata100/133 is basically new to notebooks. an ata 100/133 would be an upgrade that would make boot times faster only need ata100 as ich7 doesnt support 133 but would run it as a ata100.

Get a new one that is ata100/133 80gb likely sufficient. the xp os will override bios for larger then 139gb hd if it is sp1 but there is a bug in sp1 that if you use a hd larger then that size it will f up when writeing beyond the 139. if using xp sp2 install/recovery will hande 139 or larger with no issues.

hope that helps.

[Incog Neato]

Thank you, kind sirs! :D

I settled for a WD Scorpio 80GB PATA drive. :D

It came today and it's working most awesomely (I don't care if that's not a word!)!!!!!! ^__^

Had to upgrade the goddamn BIOS to actually boot into Windows XP properly though but aside from that, everything is going mighty swell!

Currently installing SP2. >_> Hooray for systems from the stone-age that come with SP1.

[FM-77AV]

nunuu said:

Currently installing SP2. >_> Hooray for systems from the stone-age that come with SP1.

The solution? You ILLEGALY (and proudly) download a later Windows release, that already has SP2 pre-installed. ;) Also, having a network cable inserted while installing it seems to magically include SP2. I dunno, but I think, I THINK (this is just me thinking here) that it downloads and installs it automatically during the installation. ;)

[Incog Neato]

admin said:

The solution? You ILLEGALY (and proudly) download a later Windows release, that already has SP2 pre-installed. ;)

I thought about that but it seemed like too much trouble. :3 Everything went all right even with the billion little updates I had to do. XD

Wow, 1.13 GHz is slow. :(