HP Pavilion Notebook - Hard Drive Upgrade Failed

I have an HP Pavilion notebook computer - Model dv6119us. The OEM hard
drive was filling up so I bought a larger replacement notebook drive.

I used Acronis True Image 9 to clone the existing drive onto the new
drive. That seemed to work fine as Windows Explorer confirmed the data
on the new drive.

However, when I physically replaced the old drive, I noticed that my new
drive had different connectors than the OEM drive. Both drives are
Serial ATA - the original is a Fujitsu and the new drive is a Seagate -
and the new drive physically fits into the notebook drive bay. However,
when I boot-up I get a message that the Operating System isn't being
found, and notebook won't boot. I tried changing boot order in the
BIOS, but that didn't help.

I'm sure that the OS (Windows XP Media Edition) was copied over to the
new drive. So is this message due to the drives being physically
incompatible (ie - the different connectors)? If so, is there some
conversion connector that can be used? Or is HP such a proprietary
brand of notebook that only another Fujitsu or HP hard drive would work?

Or is it that the new drive needs to be be made "Bootable" somehow?
Note that there are no jumpers or switches to set on it.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated!

HP notebooks are not all that proprietary. Either the new hard drive is not
snugly connected into the notebook chassis or the drive cloning process did not
work as it should have. Does this model of notebook require a special adapter
between the drive and the computer? As to the cloning process, I have never
used True Image so I cannot help... Ben Myers

On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 17:19:46 -0500, BRH <BRH> wrote:

>I have an HP Pavilion notebook computer - Model dv6119us. The OEM hard
>drive was filling up so I bought a larger replacement notebook drive.
>
>I used Acronis True Image 9 to clone the existing drive onto the new
>drive. That seemed to work fine as Windows Explorer confirmed the data
>on the new drive.
>
>However, when I physically replaced the old drive, I noticed that my new
>drive had different connectors than the OEM drive. Both drives are
>Serial ATA - the original is a Fujitsu and the new drive is a Seagate -
>and the new drive physically fits into the notebook drive bay. However,
>when I boot-up I get a message that the Operating System isn't being
>found, and notebook won't boot. I tried changing boot order in the
>BIOS, but that didn't help.
>
>I'm sure that the OS (Windows XP Media Edition) was copied over to the
>new drive. So is this message due to the drives being physically
>incompatible (ie - the different connectors)? If so, is there some
>conversion connector that can be used? Or is HP such a proprietary
>brand of notebook that only another Fujitsu or HP hard drive would work?
>
>Or is it that the new drive needs to be be made "Bootable" somehow?
>Note that there are no jumpers or switches to set on it.
>
>Any help with this would be greatly appreciated!