HDD not recognized by puter?.....HELP!!!

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Got myself an ebay special Compaq Presario 12XL300 Laptop minus hard drive.
I've tried to install 3 known good hard drives and none are recognized in
the bios and I get the message "Operating system not found" on boot. Any
suggestions besides staying away from ebay?
GMAN

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In a laptop?

Personally, I'd suspect a bad motherboard I'd return it!
"Sharmon" <on@request.com> wrote in message
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> yah set your drive to cable select , the CDROM is hogging the IDE
> chain
>
> >Got myself an ebay special Compaq Presario 12XL300 Laptop minus hard
drive.
> >I've tried to install 3 known good hard drives and none are recognized in
> >the bios and I get the message "Operating system not found" on boot. Any
> >suggestions besides staying away from ebay?
> >GMAN
> >
>

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I've never even SEEN a jumper on a laptop hard drive or laptop cd drive.
"Sharmon" <on@request.com> wrote in message
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> Yes the CDROM and HDD are both IDE and should be cable select . This
> would matter if it was only 1 IDE device
>
> >In a laptop?
> >
> >Personally, I'd suspect a bad motherboard I'd return it!
> >"Sharmon" <on@request.com> wrote in message
> >news:c7r380l1a4omaarrp27h4hlgpns7q2urop@4ax.com...
> >> yah set your drive to cable select , the CDROM is hogging the IDE
> >> chain
> >>
> >> >Got myself an ebay special Compaq Presario 12XL300 Laptop minus hard
> >drive.
> >> >I've tried to install 3 known good hard drives and none are recognized
in
> >> >the bios and I get the message "Operating system not found" on boot.
Any
> >> >suggestions besides staying away from ebay?
> >> >GMAN
> >> >
> >>
> >
>

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DEJ57 wrote:
>>I've never even SEEN a jumper on a laptop hard drive or laptop cd drive.
>
>
> In my very limited experience on old laptops neither have I. Curious
> though...what is the mode a laptop operates in...standard IDE Master/Slave, or
> Cable Select? I'd guess IDE M/S, as that what I had to use when adding HDDs
> and CDROMS to base expansion units for older laptops I have. (Not that any of
> this has anything to do with the original poster's problem--I just wanted to
> add a tidbit of interesting info to my "knowledge".
>
> As for the original problem, try a CMOS reset, or could be a bad data cable.
> Worse case, bad systemboard...
>
> Dale
>
> Dale

Looking just to the right of the 43 connector pins on a laptop drive
(Travelstar DADA-26480) are 4 pins, which can be selected with a jumper
for "Device0", "Device1", or "Cable Sel."...
My laptops came standard as "Device0" for the main C:\drive...

Willard

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Verdict is in, it was a bad motherboard, hard drive was set to CS, bios was
set to auto. Thanks for the help.
GMAN

"DavidG35" <DavidG35@NOSPAMcox.net> wrote in message
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> Got myself an ebay special Compaq Presario 12XL300 Laptop minus hard
drive.
> I've tried to install 3 known good hard drives and none are recognized in
> the bios and I get the message "Operating system not found" on boot. Any
> suggestions besides staying away from ebay?
> GMAN
>
>