HP Pavilion troubles

extrabastardformula · Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 12:57 am Post subject: HP Pavilion troubles

I got an off shelf pc, anyone know how to put my old hard disk in so I can get all my old data back. It's full of good things I don't want to lose, but my prior attempt had no luck.
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Kappuru · forum bishonen Joined: 05 Dec 2006

it should be on the bottom, a panel you can remove. it might have an icon that looks like this, vaguely

0))

I work as a pc tech right now, and i'm fixing those damn hps all the time. terrible quality.
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Panoptic · Joined: 05 Dec 2006

Pic of the case please? Some of them just have two thumbscrews on the back, then the side panel slides off.

Kappuru · forum bishonen Joined: 05 Dec 2006

for some reason I didn't even read it closely. I assumed you were talking about a laptop. Replacing a drive in a desktop is easy peasy, there's a flat (usually grey) cable going to the drive, and a power cable with a white cap.

(note, might be a red data cable if you have SATA)

just plug and play.
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extrabastardformula · Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 2:14 am

Yeah, I was wondering if HP had some sort of lockout thing since I've heard of being unable to instal XP on their machines and I couldn't get the machine to startup with my old drive installed.
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Wilhelm scream* · Joined: 11 Sep 2007 Location: Ajax, Ontario, Canada

get one of these, set your jumper setting to slave (or CS: cable select) and your good to go
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extrabastardformula · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 5:14 am

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Kappuru · forum bishonen Joined: 05 Dec 2006

snatcher ref.
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Daphaknee · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 11:29 am

i clicked this thread thinking it was about the shark tank
god im so tired
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