Peter Heel wrote:
> Help!! I have a 2nd user Gateway MT3712b (W340UA) laptop that won't
> recognise the hard drive (I've tried 2). I renewed the button cell on
> the motherboard as someone had removed it? Now I can boot into bios, and
> by changing the boot sequence I can boot from usb floppy and usb cd-rom
> but no hard drive listed?
> I have a utility cd that should be able to reformat the hard drive but
> that can't see it either.
> Do I need to flash the bios, as I believe that can be a nightmare if it
> goes wrong!!
> Any help would be much appreciated.
>
>
Peter,
There are two possibilities here:
1. Faulty hardware, either TWO defective hard drives or a failed
motherboard controller.
2. No connection at all between hard drive and laptop motherboard.
I am not familiar with that model, but many laptops require some sort of
adapter (sometimes called an interposer) for the hard drive. The
adapter fits over the pins on a 44-pin PATA laptop drive, and slides
into a mating socket inside the laptop chassis.
If you still have the original drive, take a look at it to see if it has
an adapter on it... Ben Myers
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