Posts by A_Tom

I just swapped out the old one for the new one and ran windows setup to format the new HD and install the OS. Subdequent to my first post, I also ran the utilities setup disk that came with the computer. This seemed to get me a little...

I have repalced the hard drive in my Inspiron 2650 with a larger one. This is all ok, except I can no longer get the wireless to work. I know the wireless works because when I put the old hard drive back in it works fine. It will not...

After updating the BIOS today, the problem went away. It was something I thought I had already done.

I also tried jumpering the new HD for cable select and it behaved exactly the same. The existing HD has no jumpers.

Today I received another hard drive; same make and model, but preformatted. It does not work either. The computer hangs on power up and does not go to XP setup as it should. BIOS returns a "Fixed Disk Error" message. Once...

I was just repeating what WD told me, but my current hard drive has no jumper either. Soon I will have another hard drive to test, and if the problem persists, I will look into what you said. Thanks.

No, but I looked for this possibility and I could find no information to suggest that a 120 Gb drive is incompatible. I contacted Western Digital about the problem and they did not mention this as a possible problem.

Since this is a single hard drive, it requires no jumper.

The notebook is about 5 yrs old and has the original 20Gb HD which I wanted to upgrade to a 120. The operating system is XP and the computer runs fine; it just needs more HD space. I purchased a new WD HD which will not install. When I...