This laptop works with no hard drive caddy, but with the caddy installed, it does not recognize the hard drive in the BIOS.
Also I tried it with a different hard drive and it did not recognize the other drive with or without the caddy.
When it goes through startup, it loads Windows, and runs perfectly.
I bought this laptop on eBay with problems. They said it had a flaky motherboard. When I got it I could see that it had been taken apart, and not quite put together in the proper sequence... After diss-assembling and re-assembling the unit, it fit together much better. I had to purchase the hard drive caddy (have verified that it is the correct one), and memory for it.
I was going to sell it as a refurbished unit, but I certainly cannot with this kind of problem, so I gave it to my 5 year old, and it sits on her little desk. It occasionally does not recognize the hard drive on startup, but re-booting works for now...
If u know to use soldering iron then try to resolder the connecter of HDD on the mother board...dont forget to remove the processor before do any thing...thats all....
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No, that's not required. Open "My Computer" and then right click on it to find the hard drives listed. If it shows up THERE, and isn't showing when you first plug the USB in, then there's nothing wrong other than the computer just isn't recognizing it as Booted to, or as an external hard drive.
If you have no warranty you will need to replace the hard drive.Did you make restore discs?If you did you can use those but will no longer have a restore partition on your hard drive.You may be able to clone your G6 drive onto the new one if it is recognized by Windows in another computer.You will need cloning software,( I use EaseUs Todo Backup ) and 2 external hard drive caddies to do it now that the HDD is failing and not booting to Windows on your machine.
could be several issues to cause this fault, make sure your usb port is usb 2.0, replace the usb cable, take the unit apart and look for loose conections, try the drive in another caddy, or try another drive in the maxtor caddy. You will probably be able to remove the drive from the caddy and connect it into your computer if you have a tower and the correct connections.
When you insert the usb cable from the caddy into a USB port on your notebook, Vista will automatically recognize it and open a dialog box. Choose to view files and folders.
Open another Window using Explorer and resize it so you can see the contents of your C: drive.
Then simply drag your files and folders from the caddy to the C: drive where you want them.
Remember that transferring program files will NOT help you as many of the files needed to run a program are located in other folders such as yours Windows directory. You will need to reinstall any software you wish to use.
This method is strictly for data transfer, as an example all your pictures, documents, spreadsheets, etc.
format your hard drive completly with this http://www.killdisk.com/downloadfree.htm
you have to create a boot cd with this software.
once formated reinstall your OS.
But if bios does not see this HD it it's also mean that is dead.
Actually, have you tried running the Windows install yet? When you're in Windows Setup, it should recognize the hard drive as a device, even if it's not formatted or formatted properly.
Try going into the BIOS for the laptop (it might be called Setup Menu or some such - you should see a prompt for hitting a key like Del to get there) and look and see if the BIOS recognizes the hard drive. If the BIOS doesn't see the hard drive, then the problem might be with the laptop and not the hard drive.
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