T42p Hard drive upgrade problem

[Irlmully]

Hi Guys,

I'm wondering if anyone can help me with an issue I'm having.

My T42p 2373 was giving sectors errors on the original 60GB HD that came with the unit, so I decided to upgrade. I got new 160GB Samsung HD, and new battery, and a memory upgrade of 1GB.

I installed the RAM, and the new HD. But the machine doesn't seem to pickup the HD.  Even when I put back in the old one it still does not pick it up. When I boot the machine I get a 'operating system not found' error. When I boot from an XP OS cd it tells me no harddisk has been detected. I'm begining to suspect the motherboard has a problem.

Any ideas?

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[TuuS]

Have you changed any settings in the bios?  

Also make sure your installing the harddrive properly and the plug is fully seated in the connector. I think it's more likely something is assembled wrong then for the board to suddenly fail. 

Also, for future referrence, it's probably best to replace one part at a time when doing upgrades like this, confirm the new part works, then install the next. This makes it easier to figure out the problem if something doesn't work.

[Mornsgrans]

You have to:

•  fix the cage with all four screws
•  take care that the connectors do NOT show to the HDD-cover
•  stand the notebook with opened display on its end
•  insert the HDD vertically into the laptop

Then the HDD should be recognized at next boot