Posted: 11/26/2013 9:07:41 PM EDT
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My Dad was having some issues with his HP tx2000 laptop, and he thought the hard drive was to blame.
So he ordered a Seagate Thin SSHD 500GB to replace the 250GB drive. Of course, he then hands it off to me to do. Turns out his problem was a common issue with that model laptop; the GPU separates from the MB when it gets too hot. I temporarily solved that issue. Since he wanted the new drive anyway, I went ahead and cloned the old one and installed the new one. Here's the problem; With the new drive installed, the computer won't get past the BIOS screen. It just resets itself over and over. It won't stay running for more than about 10 seconds no matter what I do. I've tried using the jumpers on the new drive to force it to be a SATA 1.5, but that didn't help. The computer still runs fine with the old drive. Any ideas on why it restarts after 10 seconds with the new drive? |
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Make sure BIOS see's the disk. If it does you probably boned up the clone.
Pop in the windows disk, boot from it and get to a command line / recovery console. Do the following: fixboot chkdsk /r Reboot. If it complains after rebooting about the boot record hop into the recovery console again and run "fixmbr", note that this may blow away any recovery partitions you have on the disk. |
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Make sure BIOS see's the disk. If it does you probably boned up the clone. Pop in the windows disk, boot from it and get to a command line / recovery console. Do the following: fixboot chkdsk /r Reboot. If it complains after rebooting about the boot record hop into the recovery console again and run "fixmbr", note that this may blow away any recovery partitions you have on the disk. I'll recheck the BIOS tonight. I might try to put in the old HDD and see if there's a BIOS update. But I know I won't be able to boot to a Windows disk with the new HDD installed. I don't even get past the BIOS screen, let alone the computer trying to boot. |