Help installing second hard drive on dv9000... PLEASE!!!

[mark2000]

Will be cloning the WinXP over, probably using Acronis (i.e., connecting the new drive to a SATA-to-USB adapter) as suggested before.

Actually, one of the blessings of all of this, was a chance for me to finally do the non-bloatware install of my OS, which was nice, and reorganize how I manage my files. It's been about a week project, but it was an excuse to do it, and I have no regrets. Maybe somethign to consider on your next HD upgrade!

[Teich]

Hi mark2000.

How did you "do the non-bloatware install"? Did you use the recovery disc or did you use a retail version of XP/Vista?

Thanks,
Teich

[NewJohnny]

I've encountered the same issue and symptoms with a Seagate 320gb, model ST9320320AS.

I also suspect it's a SATA2 problem. Someone else on the forums said they got it to work by placing a jumper on the back pins. Those pins will force the drive to operate in SATA1 mode. Unfortunately, I can't find docs on which pins to bridge. If someone knows, please post.

[NewJohnny]

Ok, this seems to be it:

http://www.seagate.com/images/suppor...sata_block.gif

It's the two pins furthest from the sata connector.

[NewJohnny]

Well, worked like a charm! One little jumper put on, and the the laptop boots up without delay. It's now formatted and working very well. For reference, my hp is a DV9417ca.

[Teich]

Since the NVIDIA graphics chip died in my dv9010us, which is a well-known problem for NVIDIA, I had to send the laptop back to HP for a free repair.

When I got the laptop back, I bought two WD3200BEVTs from Amazon for $86 each After restoring the old drive to the factory-default state, I cloned the old drive to the new drive using Acronis.

It is nice to walk around with a laptop that has over 600 GB of storage. I have had no problems so far.

Teich

[PC Tech]

Thanks. Yeah, I actually swapped the HD connectors, the one I bought on Ebay is now running on my old drive with no problems, so I have ruled out the connector being a problem.

One post I read somewhere I think said something about ... the drive is formatted to read under an SATA-2 standard, and that I need to somehow get it reformatted with an SATA OS.

Doesn't sound like that would be it but anything is worth a try.

Also, what other users have got this drive to work? Because I read a specific post that specifically says a user who was not able to get it to work, actually RETURNED the drive and had to get another.

Unfortunately, search is not working that well right now, so it is hard to check

SATA OS????? What a crock! There's no such thing. That person really didn't know what they were saying. I have a dv9819wm that had the same issue in which I was running identical drives in both bays (to avoid any compatibility issues) - 2 250Gb Seagate SATA II's. Here's a copy of a post I just placed elsewhere that will help you to resolve your issue PERMANENTLY, read on:

Something that I finally (After months of working on the problem of my secondary drive not being seen, or worse, being seen for a short period of time and then *POOF* disappearing from everywhere, BIOS Windows, everything! How FRUSTRATING!!!! And HP tech support sucks!! Sending it into them resolved nothing, they simply said it works and returned it to me. I work on computers for a living and figured they were smoking something, to my dismay, I was right.

I finally found the cause in a whitepaper one day while researching this problem. The problem was that the second drive bay cannot utilize a drive running at 3 G/sec., it HAS TO BE clipped to 1.5 G/Sec. You can check with you drive manufacturer or simply look at the top of the drive for a jumper setting, but you WILL need a small jumper designed for laptop drives, others will not work safely. Once I clipped the drive to the slower speed, it has been running like a champ ever since (at least the last three months or so). THANKS FOR NO HELP HP!!!!!! Why they would design a laptop that could use two drives and then not give both interfaces the same connection speed is beyond me.

Johnny, didn't see your revelatory post saying the same thing. Glad to know others have the answers too!!!


HP dv9819wm
4Gb RAM
2- 250Gb HDD
Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit

[tiking]

Ok, this seems to be it:

http://www.seagate.com/images/suppor...sata_block.gif

It's the two pins furthest from the sata connector.

I am also seem to be having this same problem, I think. How did you bridge the so-called jumpers? I would like to try it because I bought a WESTERN DIGITAL SCORPIO BLACK 160GB 7200RPM SATA/300 16MB

[walterdt3]

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I finally found the cause in a whitepaper one day while researching this problem. The problem was that the second drive bay cannot utilize a drive running at 3 G/sec., it HAS TO BE clipped to 1.5 G/Sec. You can check with you drive manufacturer or simply look at the top of the drive for a jumper setting, but you WILL need a small jumper designed for laptop drives, others will not work safely. Once I clipped the drive to the slower speed, it has been running like a champ ever since (at least the last three months or so).

This is interesting, since I have used identical SATA2 drives, both 320Gig, and currently 500Gig in my DV9500T with no jumpers, and no problems. this doesn't seam to me a consistant problem.
Hopefuly for those who have the problem, the above fix will work.