Trouble installing Seagate 250 gig hard drive on my d600

Hey all, ive been having a huge problem with my dell d600. My d600 has a corrupted file, so i decided to upgrade the hard drive (ive always wanted to do this.). So i bought a Seagate 250gig hard drive for my d600 and i cant seem to make it work. It reads after the dell symbol comes up and then it says that there is no primary drives found and no bootable devices found. And when i try to run the diagnostic it says the same thing. What am i doing wrong? I bought the hard drive from Office Depot and the guy didnt tell me about any drivers that i needed to buy or anything. Can anyone help?

 

Go into the bios and check to see if it recognizes the hard drive.

 

i may have found the problem. I looked at both of the hard drives next to each other and the connections look totally different. Im guessing SATA and ATA hard drives have different connections? The SATA hard drive (the seagate hard drive) was a full quarter inch shorter. But from what i see, most notebook and laptop hard drives say in best buy or where ever are mostly if not all carrying SATA hard drives so what gives? Although i opened the package and now Office Depot wants nothing to do with me unless im exchanging it for something else. So now im right back to square one on my laptop. I dont have any of the software to reinstall the windows xp on my hard drive since i bought this from ebay. the laptop was an off-lease kind of deal i guess. Guess you get what you pay for.

 

When the laptop boots up press f2

 

Ive tried that already though and it didnt recognize anything. It still had the stats from the previous hard drive it just wasnt picking it up or reading it. Now is it because i bought a SATA type of hard drive? I just bought a EIDE (guessing its a ATA type of hard drive) at Best Buy so i`ll try this one now.\

Just looked at the connections and that are totally different once again!! Where can i buy an upgraded hard drive for my dell latitude d600?!?! This is very fustrating find a hard drive for this thing.

 

OH >.<
If you bought a sata drive than you must not have been able to install it inside the laptop.
In this case you need to return the seagate 250 and use an IDE or EIDE interface drive.
If you just bought one then try putting that in the laptop.

 

Yep i just tried to put it in my laptop but no its saying that there is no boost sector. Now im reading up on western digital`s (thats the EIDE hard drive i bought) and i need to partition it...but i didnt get any kind of software with the hard drive and they said it comes with the hard drive. Ive tried to use my windows xp install disk because they said you can use that if you didnt get the installation software but thats not working at all. Im at a stand still with this stupid thing.

 

Is the D600 old enough that the BIOS doesn't support LBA so it can't see beyond 137GB?

See the WD Support site for help about this possible problem (if that link doesn't work, search the WD support for "137GB").

John

 

Did you remover the interposer from the old drive and put on the new one?

 

The D600 only supports P-ATA (IDE) drives (not S-ATA).
I ran a WD 250GB drive just fine on my M60 (same generation as a D600).
If you're installing XP, make sure you use a slipstreamed XP + SP2 disc to recognise the entire 250GB. Otherwise, you'll have to prtition the drive to install a non SP2 XP, and after, use Disk Management to create the second partition on the unallocated space.