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IBM Travelstar HDD
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New MessageIBM Travelstar HDD (modified 0 times) worksup
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I think I read every post on booting from hard drives without finding a solution to my problem. I have an IBM Travelstar 4.8 gig drive. It boots fine on my laptop, but not on the WP. I tried messing with BIOS settings like Installed OS and Large Disk Access Mode and it still won't work. I tried setting the drive to User and enabling and disabling LBA Mode Control and 32 Bit I/O, but that didn't work either. Since my WP boots fine with an old Toshiba 810 meg drive, I'm assuming all BIOS settings are correct. Anybody else experienced this?
04-30-2001 22:20:36

New MessageRE:IBM Travelstar HDD (modified 0 times) yellow1
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I had the same problems and it took me hours to figure it out...
Assuming your HDD shows up as the Primary master in the BIOS, what you can try is:
1) the command SYS x: in DOS (where x is the drive letter of your HDD)
2) fdisk /mbr in case your master boot record was messed up in your laptop for some reason.
3) Finally, create a startup disk in W98 and copy the contents on your HD (make sure you've selected Unhide System Files in Explorer options)
That shoudl take care of it.
04-30-2001 23:10:00

New MessageRE:IBM Travelstar HDD (modified 0 times) JWerth
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I am having the same problem with a travelstar 12.7 gig. My bios won't recognize it and it won't even spin up. If you solve it let us know.
06-14-2001 13:53:17

New MessageRE:IBM Travelstar HDD (modified 0 times) Scyber
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I had to make sure that the partition on my hardrive was made active in order to get the webplayer to recognize it.


Scyber

06-14-2001 14:03:57

New MessageRE:IBM Travelstar HDD (modified 0 times) Traveller
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I tried Fuji drives - they would not work. I tried a Travellstar also that I eventually fried whilst trying to get the Bios to recognise it. I have now tried several Toshiba drives and they all work just fine. No idea why.

Traveller

11-26-2001 11:00:14

New MessageRE:IBM Travelstar HDD (modified 0 times) DotheDoo
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I'm using a 3.2GB Travelstar in mine that I bought used in March. Never had a lick of trouble getting it to recognize and boot.
12-07-2001 01:31:37

New MessageRE:IBM Travelstar HDD (modified 0 times) BigDog
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Chack your IDE cable, the Webplayer requires a normal straight through cable unlike the i-Opener's and GCT which every pair is reversed, be sure that you have pin one going to pin one on the header (towards the CP as I recall).

I have used several differnet IBM travelstars in my webplayer that I had awhile back, never had problem with non of them.

The bios will see the drive regardless if it's partitioned or formated, that makes no difference. If it's not formated for partitioned correctly then you will get boot errore like "system not found"

Does the drive spin up ???

12-08-2001 09:08:25

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