Hello all,
i hope someone has experience on this as i am really frustrated. I bought a Hitachi IC25N080ATMR04-0 80Gb disk and i cant seem to get it to format when i first installed it.
My notebook is a HP Pavillion ZE4200 purchased with a 30Gb Toshiba disk (MK3021GAS). Now that i installed the 80gb hitachi disk, the format from windows stops at 99% and reports that windows cannot be installed on this disk as it might be damaged. This got me worried as it has happened in the past where i ended buying 2 x Toshiba 40Gb disks which had the exact same problem. (i use them now perfectly on my desktop and not on the laptop).
I tested the new hitachi drive now with the fitness test and it reports no error on the quick test. On the advance full test it reports an error code 0x41 - Bad Cable, and that i should replace the ATA cable and run the test again. That got me confused as which ATA cable can i change? its a laptop and i dont see any ATA or non cables in it. Only the screen cables and the mouse/keyboard cable exists in there, all other is motherboard?????
Has anyone any recommendation on this, as it can't be that 3 drives have problem and there is no ata cable there (except if its meant that the board is dying, which has returned no errors on all other major tests i have made to it with other little tools. The old 30Gb disk works fine, the 40 gb disks had problems even loading windows when on the laptop (when i managed to format them on the desktop and then install them on laptop). and finally the 80 gb disk has the exact same problem. Is there any firmware/bios/motherb/or anything else that i could upgrade/fix?
I am sorry if i have confused a lot or wrote to much, but am really dissapointed by hp as even they verified to me by multi emails that the disks are compatible and everything.
Thanks for listening and hope that someone helps me out and all others with tech problems
Byes for now
i hope someone has experience on this as i am really frustrated. I bought a Hitachi IC25N080ATMR04-0 80Gb disk and i cant seem to get it to format when i first installed it.
My notebook is a HP Pavillion ZE4200 purchased with a 30Gb Toshiba disk (MK3021GAS). Now that i installed the 80gb hitachi disk, the format from windows stops at 99% and reports that windows cannot be installed on this disk as it might be damaged. This got me worried as it has happened in the past where i ended buying 2 x Toshiba 40Gb disks which had the exact same problem. (i use them now perfectly on my desktop and not on the laptop).
I tested the new hitachi drive now with the fitness test and it reports no error on the quick test. On the advance full test it reports an error code 0x41 - Bad Cable, and that i should replace the ATA cable and run the test again. That got me confused as which ATA cable can i change? its a laptop and i dont see any ATA or non cables in it. Only the screen cables and the mouse/keyboard cable exists in there, all other is motherboard?????
Has anyone any recommendation on this, as it can't be that 3 drives have problem and there is no ata cable there (except if its meant that the board is dying, which has returned no errors on all other major tests i have made to it with other little tools. The old 30Gb disk works fine, the 40 gb disks had problems even loading windows when on the laptop (when i managed to format them on the desktop and then install them on laptop). and finally the 80 gb disk has the exact same problem. Is there any firmware/bios/motherb/or anything else that i could upgrade/fix?
I am sorry if i have confused a lot or wrote to much, but am really dissapointed by hp as even they verified to me by multi emails that the disks are compatible and everything.
Thanks for listening and hope that someone helps me out and all others with tech problems
Byes for now