SSD hard drive issue

Mr Bigglesworth · 07-18-2009, 06:24 AM

Hi there

This is my first post so forgive me if I unintentionally break any rules here!

I have purchased an 80GB Solid State hard drive from ebay.co.uk - item number 140330811987 if you want to look it up. It was apparently belonging to a 5th generation apple IPOD. I purchased it with the aim of formatting it and installing Windows XP in my laptop.

When I start the laptop and enter the BIOS, it recognises that my primary hard drive is the 80 GB HDD that I have purchased and installed. When pressing F12 to access boot options, it lists the internal HDD as an option. If I select the internal drive it produces a line stating ' Read failure on internal hard drive' which I thought was to do with the fact there was nothing installed on the drive I then attempted to install Windows XP and got as far as selecting which partitions to set up the installation on where it says '<Setup cannot access this disk.>'

If I attempt anything through the Windows Recovery Console I get a line saying ‘the specified drive is not valid, or there is no disk in the drive’

Is there anything anyone can suggest I try? Is there anyway of formatting this drive so Windows will recognise its existence?

**raptor_pa** · 07-18-2009, 07:07 AM

If this is a SATA device, in BIOS set the SATA port to IDE/Compatibility/Legacy mode, either that or slip stream the SATA drivers into your XP install Disk with N-Lite.

Mr Bigglesworth · 07-18-2009, 08:07 AM

To add a twist to the tale, I don’t have access to the BIOS settings. I purchased the laptop off someone on eBay who got it elsewhere and have no access to BIOS because a password has been set.

From reading up on Google search results, it appears you can set the ability for the iPod to be used with computers via iTunes. Unfortunately I don’t have an IPod classic that this hard drive would fit into to enable that option. I wonder if there are any bootable programs that will format the drive for use with computers. The laptop definitely recognises that it is an 80 GB hard drive

07-18-2009, 06:24 AM	#1 (permalink)
Mr Bigglesworth Registered User Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 2 OS: Windows Vista	SSD hard drive issue Hi there This is my first post so forgive me if I unintentionally break any rules here! I have purchased an 80GB Solid State hard drive from ebay.co.uk - item number 140330811987 if you want to look it up. It was apparently belonging to a 5th generation apple IPOD. I purchased it with the aim of formatting it and installing Windows XP in my laptop. When I start the laptop and enter the BIOS, it recognises that my primary hard drive is the 80 GB HDD that I have purchased and installed. When pressing F12 to access boot options, it lists the internal HDD as an option. If I select the internal drive it produces a line stating ' Read failure on internal hard drive' which I thought was to do with the fact there was nothing installed on the drive I then attempted to install Windows XP and got as far as selecting which partitions to set up the installation on where it says '<Setup cannot access this disk.>' If I attempt anything through the Windows Recovery Console I get a line saying ‘the specified drive is not valid, or there is no disk in the drive’ Is there anything anyone can suggest I try? Is there anyway of formatting this drive so Windows will recognise its existence?

07-18-2009, 07:07 AM	#2 (permalink)
raptor_pa Mod Hardware Team Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Central PA Posts: 4,788 OS: XP	Re: SSD hard drive issue If this is a SATA device, in BIOS set the SATA port to IDE/Compatibility/Legacy mode, either that or slip stream the SATA drivers into your XP install Disk with N-Lite. __________________

07-18-2009, 08:07 AM	#3 (permalink)
Mr Bigglesworth Registered User Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 2 OS: Windows Vista	Re: SSD hard drive issue To add a twist to the tale, I don’t have access to the BIOS settings. I purchased the laptop off someone on eBay who got it elsewhere and have no access to BIOS because a password has been set. From reading up on Google search results, it appears you can set the ability for the iPod to be used with computers via iTunes. Unfortunately I don’t have an IPod classic that this hard drive would fit into to enable that option. I wonder if there are any bootable programs that will format the drive for use with computers. The laptop definitely recognises that it is an 80 GB hard drive