[Solved] Presario 6024us needs hard drive

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Hello,
I have a compaq presario 6024us that the original owner, paranoid, removed the original hard drive. So now I am at a quandry as to how to reprogram it. ANY HELP will be greatly appreciated. I put an old 40gb hard drive from an older HP PC into it and it doesn't do anything. HELP

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If the system doesn't post, check your power supply connections to the drive. I use a boot disk or cd from the hardrive manufacturer. Maxblast 5.0 is a free download; other drives have similar software. You will need to format the drive anyway and reinstall windows or linux. The old compaq windows may work if the owner made any backup dvd's. Ubuntu is free if you just want to surf the net. You can also reset the bios which may help. With the power supply unplugged, either remove the motherboard battery for one minute, or move the cmos jumper over one position, keeping two out of the three pins covered, then return to the original position.

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I will try this... will let you know what happens, thanks

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