Installed new hardrive on our Compaq laptop, question

its an hardrive error. what you can do is take out the hardrive and insert it back in...

just try with fixing the hard drive connection properly and in bios also check how much capacity motherboard can support .according to your specification it will not support the higher capacity hard disk .make sure you installing the new hardidsk as same capacity of your older hard drive.

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Some older laptops don't always recognize the full size hard drives bigger than 134 Gb, but they usually show up in your bios. There isn't an easy way to install it wrong, so if the drive wasn't new to you, it might have a problem...New Hard drives come with installation CD's, but that won't do you any good until the drive is recognized

If the hard disk has failed, and you want the data off of the hard disk, you have two choices..

Purchase a extender to allow you to read the hard disk and also purchase a data recovery program to get the data off the hard disk...

Or google data recovery service and find one that can retrieve data of of bad hard drives..

Either way afterward you will need to purchase a new hard drive.. They have drives as low as 30 dollars online that can be purchased and then installed.

You will need to reinstall windows on the new hard drive you get..

Ultimately you will have to weigh the cost of repairing the computer ( purchasing a hardrive and purchasing a new copy of windows)

Versus purchasing a new computer.

check hard disk drive repair you windows if you are using xp sp2

It Ended up being very simple. I simply found a Dynamic drive Overlay Software and all works fine

If you’ve installed Windows XP on Compaq Presario F700 or Presario F730 follow this simple step:


a. Install Microsoft UAA
 http://tinyurl.com/6kelwb
then reboot your computers

b. then install Conenxant Audio Sound Driver
 ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp34001-34500/sp34386.exe

If your USB ports are installed correctly and enabled in BIOS, you will see Universal Bus Controller list in the the Device Manager. Double-click your USB in the Device Manager and a dialog box will appear. Click on the driver tab and update the driver. To get to Device Manager right-click on My Computer>click on Hardware>Device Manager. If your computer has a built-in USB device and does not detect the device through the Device Manager, confirm that the USB is enabled in the computers BIOS and that the BIOS supprts USB devices.

Last Month i Purchse Laptop Compaq Presario V3702TU With Vista Home Basic. Wrongly I delete the Partition and again I Installed Vista Home Premium down load all Drivers and install only Web Camera Driver not installed kindly help me out how to installed web camera driver on vista home premium 32 bit.

Harddrive is most likely bad get another and install windiws... if you found the right place they could "ghost" your information onto the new one!