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HP pavillion does not recognise new sata hard drive

post #1 of 15
10/31/08 at 6:12pm
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hi folks
i am upgrading my western digital hard drive on my hp dv2058ea to a western digital 250gb drive. when i put in the first hp recovery disc the screen says hard disc not found, recovery console cannot continue. where am i going wrong?
thanks in advance for any replies.
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post #2 of 15
11/1/08 at 12:33pm
Sounded like you missed the sata driver for the drive

cheers ...
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post #3 of 15
11/2/08 at 12:02am
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i suspected as much, i have put the sata driver on a floppy but still the recovery disc says no hard drive found, all suggestions appreciated,
tony
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post #4 of 15
11/2/08 at 1:16am
The recovery disk does usually not work with a "new" drive. You would need a Windows installation disk for this job

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post #5 of 15
11/3/08 at 3:59am
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ah i see, thanks for that qhn, should a windows xp disc that came with my dell desktop work with the laptop in your opinion?
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post #6 of 15
11/3/08 at 2:58pm
It should. Just use the COA key that belongs to the comp at activation.

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post #7 of 15
11/3/08 at 4:26pm
Firstly check what hard drive it is , is it any sata or hdd ?
If it is hdd check for th ejumoers in that, Conenctg the jumpers at adviced in the hard drive it self, annd remember to connect hard disk at the 1 primary mastre.
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post #8 of 15
11/3/08 at 9:21pm
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ok here is the update,
the dell disc did not work.
i have bought a new xp disc with sp3
i have loaded the sata drivers onto a floppy
windows set up works so far, then using the f6 option i instal the sata drivers
set up completes and then it says 'to instal windwos press enter', when i press enter it says no hard disc found.
i have tried this with two different brand new hard discs.
the western digital sata 250gb i am trying to upgrade to is identical in every way to the original western digital sata 120 gb drive that came with the laptop as new.
is it possible that some hp laptops don't allow you to upgrade the hard drive?

i even installed onto floppys the western digital set up and diagnostic software, neither can find a hard drive,

any ideas folks?
cheers
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post #9 of 15
11/4/08 at 2:28pm
Do not use a Dell disc, Dell's XP reinstall discs have a Dell only Volume Licence key embedded in their winnt.sif file so the installer will never prompt you for it, then have fun getting Microsoft to activate it.

My guess is you're having to use a USB floppy drive. Unfortunately there's only three specific models of USB Floppy drive that will work to load a SCSI or RAID driver. Two different TEACs and an IBM. Odds are you have none of the three. What you can do is go into BIOS and change your serial ATA operation from AHCI to ATA or compatibility mode.
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post #10 of 15
11/4/08 at 6:52pm
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hi mr evil,
yes i tried a usb floppy then i made a slipstream copy of xp including sata drivers both with no success
when i go into bios i don't have any option to change the sata operation from ahci to ata or compatibility mode, in fact the options are fairly limited in bios.

latest update

i got a usb external hard drive enclosure and put the new 250 gb inside and ran the laptop with the original hard disc. windows recognised the new hard drive but it needed to be initialised and partioned which i have done and it now shows as new volume H and the status is healthy.

this proves at least there is no fault with the hard drive

however when putting the new hard drive back inside the laptop, once again windows goes through the set up procedures then when it asks me to press enter to instal windows still says no hard drive found.

i'm totally at a loss now having spent days on this, the original hard drive is identical in every way apart from the size ie 250gb instead of 120gb, they are both western digital, both sata not sata2.

help
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post #11 of 15
11/4/08 at 9:13pm
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Problem solved (i think).
i believe the solution to this problem has been found.
i managed to chat online for an hour with karl from hp support, and he has come to the conclusion that the dv2000 series has a maximum upgrade potential of only 160gb, and that's why the new western digital is not being recognised. i will purchase a 160 gb tomorrow and will post my results.

meantime thanks to all those who kindly offered suggestions,

tony
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post #12 of 15
11/5/08 at 12:29am
I think karl is wrong. There is absolutely NO REASON that the laptop would have a 160GB Limit. If the system used older Parallel ATA I would say maybe, but with SATA the bus is meant to last well into the future with much larger hard drives. That is assuming HP didn't nerf the SATA controller on their system by making it ignore a drive larger than 160GB.

But I'm not an HP repair tech, so I really don't know what sort of limitations they put on their hardware.

The only other thing to try would be use nlite to embed the SATA driver into an XP install disc along with your system's key. Using the F6 floppy is not slipstreaming. And as I said unless your Floppy drive is one of the ONLY THREE that Microsoft made to work with XP Setup, the drivers won't load from floppy.
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post #13 of 15
11/6/08 at 9:34am
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Success at last folks!

it turns out that karl from hp support was right, i put the 160gb hitachi in and using nlite created a slipstream cd that included the sata drivers. (the slipstream cd did not work on the 250 gb drives) i guess the maximum upgrade must indeed be limited in either the bios or the motherboard, anyway i now have windows installed on my new hard drive. furthermore i got a sata external usb hard drive enclosure at a great price into which i can put the 250 gb western digital for portable storage.

next job,,,, i've not got a record of my belkin wireless router wpa encryption key, laptop sees my network but need to enter they key again, i'm sure i can resolve this in google,

thanks for the assistance folks, kept me sane during this, and hopefully it will be easier for someone else should this issue i've had crop up again.

tony
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post #14 of 15
11/9/08 at 11:37pm
It's probably HP pulling the same old Whitelist BS they have in the past. Nerfing the ability for customers to upgrade their hardware later on. That's one of the reasons I'll never touch an HP system with a 10' pole. My Latitude D820 shipped with an 80GB drive originally and now I have a 250GB drive in it.
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post #15 of 15
11/11/08 at 4:29pm
Awwww...but you'd touch my HP with a 10' pole right? Yes, i've heard numerous people complaining about HP limiting their hdd upgrades.
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