Harddrive not recognized

[sherrod]

Hello, what would make my compaq presario m2000 not recognize its onboard harddrive?

 

[EXT64]

Was it recently working and is now giving an error, or did you change anything hardware wise?

 

[sherrod]

not sure because a friend gave it to me in this condition......there was no harddrive in it when he got it so i know the harddrive is not original equipment..

 

[EXT64]

So, in the BIOS it cannot see the drive? Can it see the CD/DVD drive?

 

[sherrod]

yes.....bios sees cd/dvd does not see harddrive

 

[sherrod]

So, in the BIOS it cannot see the drive? Can it see the CD/DVD drive?

that's right.....sees cd/dvd but doesn't see harddrive

 

[EXT64]

What type of HDD, IDE?

Can you try it in any other ports, or better yet, do you have any extra HDDs you could try?

 

[sherrod]

not sure what other ports i could try but i have tried several different harddrives and they all appear to be getting power but not seen....any suggestions??ANYONE??

 

[dmcfc]

try to connect it using another sata cable, once my motherboard wasn't seeing my CD/DVD drive, so I decided to just try it on a different port with a different sata cable, and it worked, and then I went back to the port that I was using before and it also worked, so the conclusion is the sata cable I was using was DOA, because I tried another one but the same model and it worked....try doing this, hope it fixes it...

 

[sherrod]

you do realize this is a laptop right? not sure about sata being on this..

 

[dmcfc]

sorry didn't know about it...