On Wednesday 27 November 2013 19:34:25 Chris Dennis wrote:
> But I've always found that having an optical drive on
> the same PATA cable as a hard disk slows everything down.
This is of course water under the bridge now, but slow would have been
better surely than chucking the laptop? I'm glad t
Been there too.
I've had more than one SATA cable go haywire.
We live and learn.
Tony Wood
On 27/11/13 21:49, Chris Dennis wrote:
Thanks again for all the potentially useful replies.
I found an older SATA drive with a 1.5Gb/3Gb jumper -- that wouldn't
work either.
And then, guess wha
Thanks again for all the potentially useful replies.
I found an older SATA drive with a 1.5Gb/3Gb jumper -- that wouldn't
work either.
And then, guess what? I replaced the SATA cable, and now it all works
perfectly.
Try not to think of it as time wasted, more as a lesson (re-)learnt.
In m
On Nov 27, 2013 1:34 PM, "Artur Łądka" wrote:
>
> On 27/11/13 12:02, Tony Whitmore wrote:
>>
>> It's a limitation of old BIOSes - look for a BIOS update that might
address the issue. If you can't find one then you might be out of luck...
>>
>> Tony
>>
> And even if disk is not recognized by BIOS t
do you need the cd after instalation? just disconnect it.
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On 27 Nov 2013, at 19:34, Chris Dennis wrote:
> On 27/11/13 17:30, Lisi wrote:
>> On Wednesday 27 November 2013 17:15:24 Chris Dennis wrote:
>>> I could use a PATA hard disk, but the motherboard only has one PATA
>>>
On 27/11/13 17:30, Lisi wrote:
On Wednesday 27 November 2013 17:15:24 Chris Dennis wrote:
I could use a PATA hard disk, but the motherboard only has one PATA
channel, and that is in use for the optical drive.
In a desktop, one PATA channel would be able to take two connections
on the same ribb
ide supports 2 drives per channel you just need a diff cable, and a <80gb pata
disk.
i can list the required spares on ebay for 1p +postage.
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On 27 Nov 2013, at 17:15, Chris Dennis wrote:
> On 27/11/13 11:36, Chris Dennis wrote:
>> Hello folks
>>
>> I'm trying to give a
On Wednesday 27 November 2013 17:15:24 Chris Dennis wrote:
> I could use a PATA hard disk, but the motherboard only has one PATA
> channel, and that is in use for the optical drive.
In a desktop, one PATA channel would be able to take two connections
on the same ribbon cable (master and slave or
On 27/11/13 11:36, Chris Dennis wrote:
Hello folks
I'm trying to give a new lease of life to an HP Compaq computer,
previously running Windows XP, with bad blocks on its 80GB SATA disk.
The plan is to install Linux Mint on a new hard disk.
But every disk I've tried (two new ones, and a couple
On 27/11/13 12:02, Tony Whitmore wrote:
It's a limitation of old BIOSes - look for a BIOS update that might
address the issue. If you can't find one then you might be out of luck...
Tony
And even if disk is not recognized by BIOS try to boot up from
LiveCD/USB and check if this new HDD is vis
On 27 Nov 2013, at 11:36, Chris Dennis wrote:
> Hello folks
>
> I'm trying to give a new lease of life to an HP Compaq computer, previously
> running Windows XP, with bad blocks on its 80GB SATA disk.
>
some systems have a sata legacy mode which can cause issues. also if the new
drive is S
On 2013-11-27 11:36, Chris Dennis wrote:
Hello folks
I'm trying to give a new lease of life to an HP Compaq computer,
previously running Windows XP, with bad blocks on its 80GB SATA disk.
The plan is to install Linux Mint on a new hard disk.
But every disk I've tried (two new ones, and a coupl
Hello folks
I'm trying to give a new lease of life to an HP Compaq computer,
previously running Windows XP, with bad blocks on its 80GB SATA disk.
The plan is to install Linux Mint on a new hard disk.
But every disk I've tried (two new ones, and a couple of old ones, all
bigger than 80GB) fa
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