new HD

Sleekmac · 05-06-2005, 07:01 PM

Hello all! I'm hoping someone has experience installing a new hard drive into a notebook? Hardware-wise I think I am all set. I transferred the caddy to the new HD and plugged it in, it seems to be seated properly. Now what do I do?
I have a Compaq Armada M700 notebook, I hooked up the external floppy drive and it has an internal cd drive. In the cd drive I have my windows 2000 disk, and in the floppy I have my basic win98 boot disk. When I start it up, it checks the cache as always, then on the COMPAQ splash screen it says "Disk Controller Error". After a moment it says "Non-System Disk or disk error replace and hit any key"
This is what I was expecting to see with no floppy, but how do I make it boot off the floppy? I had this problem before with the same floppy drive and it worked. (that was about two years ago and I don't remember what I did.) Do I have to reset the BIOS to make it look on the SCSI port first? I can't remember how to get to the BIOS, there's no chance to hit F8 before it realizes the HD is not a system disk.

Geekgirl · 05-09-2005, 10:30 AM

Yes you need to set the BIOS to look at the drive you are trying to boot from. Normally it is the Delete key that brings you into the BIOS

05-06-2005, 07:01 PM	#1 (permalink)
Sleekmac Registered User Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 17 OS: Win2K	new HD Hello all! I'm hoping someone has experience installing a new hard drive into a notebook? Hardware-wise I think I am all set. I transferred the caddy to the new HD and plugged it in, it seems to be seated properly. Now what do I do? I have a Compaq Armada M700 notebook, I hooked up the external floppy drive and it has an internal cd drive. In the cd drive I have my windows 2000 disk, and in the floppy I have my basic win98 boot disk. When I start it up, it checks the cache as always, then on the COMPAQ splash screen it says "Disk Controller Error". After a moment it says "Non-System Disk or disk error replace and hit any key" This is what I was expecting to see with no floppy, but how do I make it boot off the floppy? I had this problem before with the same floppy drive and it worked. (that was about two years ago and I don't remember what I did.) Do I have to reset the BIOS to make it look on the SCSI port first? I can't remember how to get to the BIOS, there's no chance to hit F8 before it realizes the HD is not a system disk.

05-09-2005, 10:30 AM	#2 (permalink)
Geekgirl Assistant Manager, Microsoft Support Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Six-burgh, Pennsylvania Posts: 14,164 OS: XP Home SP3/XP Pro SP3/Vista Ultimate SP2/Windows 7 Professional	Yes you need to set the BIOS to look at the drive you are trying to boot from. Normally it is the Delete key that brings you into the BIOS __________________ Compare NOD32 to your current antivirus and anti-spyware solution, HERE How to back up and restore the registry in Windows XP and Windows Vista Or Windows 7 How to back up and restore the registry in Windows 98/ ME / NT 4.0 / 2000 I DO NOT ACCEPT EMAILS AND WILL NOT REPLY TO THEM !!!!! TSF DOES NOT SUPPORT ASSISTANCE THROUGH EMAIL OR PRIVATE MESSAGES, PLEASE KEEP ALL QUESTIONS IN THE OPEN FORUM *The Pittsburgh Steelers - 6 X Superbowl Champions !!!!!!!* *The Pittsburgh Penguins - 2009 Stanley Cup Champions !!!!!!!*