Hard drive compatibility

Hi

Recently seen some articles about hard drives and wonder if anybody
can give me some advice on the problem I am currently encountering.
About 6 months ago, the original 6G HD in the 4270 failed and I
replaced it a new IBM Travelstar 20G. I managed to install WIN98SE in
it but not Win 2000 or Win XP. When installing Win 2000/XP, the screen
showed "hard drive fails" or something like "non-repairable error in
the hard disk". I didn't have the same problem before with my
original 6G HD. I am using a IBM Travelstar (Model: IC25N020ATCS04-0
4200RPM) with no setting on jumper. I would be glad if anybody have
any suggestion.

Regards,

Andy :cry:

"andywon" <andywon@exemail.com-dot-au.no-spam.invalid> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> Recently seen some articles about hard drives and wonder if anybody
> can give me some advice on the problem I am currently encountering.
> About 6 months ago, the original 6G HD in the 4270 failed and I
> replaced it a new IBM Travelstar 20G. I managed to install WIN98SE in
> it but not Win 2000 or Win XP. When installing Win 2000/XP, the screen
> showed "hard drive fails" or something like "non-repairable error in
> the hard disk". I didn't have the same problem before with my
> original 6G HD. I am using a IBM Travelstar (Model: IC25N020ATCS04-0
> 4200RPM) with no setting on jumper. I would be glad if anybody have
> any suggestion.
>
> Regards,
>
> Andy :cry:
>
I suppose the 4270 might be a Toshiba laptop, but then again it might not.
I would suggest you do a bit of a google to find out more on the machines
capabilities.
Could be the drive size is too big for the machine.
best wishes..OJ

> I suppose the 4270 might be a Toshiba laptop, but then again it might not.
> I would suggest you do a bit of a google to find out more on the machines
> capabilities.
> Could be the drive size is too big for the machine.
> best wishes..OJ

It is completely possible what "old Jon" is saying. There also may be a new
bios file made for this motherboard that can be flashed to allow XP to see
the drive.

--
Jan Alter
bearpuf@verizon.net
or
jalter@phila.k12.pa.us
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> "andywon" <andywon@exemail.com-dot-au.no-spam.invalid> wrote in message
> news:UtydnX3miOv3UE3fRVn_vg@giganews.com...
>> Hi
>>
>> Recently seen some articles about hard drives and wonder if anybody
>> can give me some advice on the problem I am currently encountering.
>> About 6 months ago, the original 6G HD in the 4270 failed and I
>> replaced it a new IBM Travelstar 20G. I managed to install WIN98SE in
>> it but not Win 2000 or Win XP. When installing Win 2000/XP, the screen
>> showed "hard drive fails" or something like "non-repairable error in
>> the hard disk". I didn't have the same problem before with my
>> original 6G HD. I am using a IBM Travelstar (Model: IC25N020ATCS04-0
>> 4200RPM) with no setting on jumper. I would be glad if anybody have
>> any suggestion.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Andy :cry:
>>
> I suppose the 4270 might be a Toshiba laptop, but then again it might not.
> I would suggest you do a bit of a google to find out more on the machines
> capabilities.
> Could be the drive size is too big for the machine.
> best wishes..OJ
>
>