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by resurgam
Wed Dec 31, 2003 11:51 pm
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: 40GB: Gateway Solo 9500 Notebook
Replies: 18
Views: 8228

Hey guys I thank you for the info. I have just paid $US60.00 for the software are you telling me that it ain't going to work.

What the hell is 32GB jumper you keep talking about ??

Steven.
by resurgam
Wed Dec 31, 2003 11:22 pm
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: 40GB: Gateway Solo 9500 Notebook
Replies: 18
Views: 8228

That is true. I noticed though in reading the page you sent me that it has a dynamic overlay for drives up to 33GB. That won't help me too much will it.
by resurgam
Wed Dec 31, 2003 10:15 pm
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: 40GB: Gateway Solo 9500 Notebook
Replies: 18
Views: 8228

Thanks again I used Seagate's disk utilities, but the computer couldn't even see that there was a drive there. As far as the machine is concerned it doesn't have a hard drive installed. However, there is power to the drive and during POST it does light up the little drive active light.

Steven.
by resurgam
Wed Dec 31, 2003 9:17 pm
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: 40GB: Gateway Solo 9500 Notebook
Replies: 18
Views: 8228

Thanks Guys for the help, but this ain't getting me nowhere. I bought the drive from a DIY market here in Australia. The drive came in a sealed antistatic bag no thing else was with it, not even the little plastic jumper fittings. It is just this "bloody' Gateway heap of electronic crap I have. The...
by resurgam
Wed Dec 31, 2003 7:35 pm
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: 40GB: Gateway Solo 9500 Notebook
Replies: 18
Views: 8228

Fujitsu 40GB hard drive as an upgrade (model MHT2040AT)

Steven
by resurgam
Wed Dec 31, 2003 6:56 am
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: 40GB: Gateway Solo 9500 Notebook
Replies: 18
Views: 8228

Hi again Edwin,

Unfortunately the hard drive didn't come with any instructions. It was in an antistatic bag.

Steven 8O
by resurgam
Mon Dec 29, 2003 11:03 am
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: 40GB: Gateway Solo 9500 Notebook
Replies: 18
Views: 8228

Edwin, thanks very much for your reply. I am unfamiliar with the method you are suggesting - there are jumpers on the notebook hard drive ??

What setting should they be set at ???

Could you please submit some more details for the novice.

Steven 8O
by resurgam
Sun Dec 28, 2003 10:00 pm
Forum: My hard drive isn't recognized
Topic: 40GB: Gateway Solo 9500 Notebook
Replies: 18
Views: 8228

40GB: Gateway Solo 9500 Notebook

Hello, This is my first posting on this forum and I hope it will be fruitful. I have a Gateway Solo 9500 Notebook that had an IBM 20GB hard drive. I have purchased a Fujitsu 40GB hard drive as an upgrade (model MHT2040AT). I have inserted the hard drive correctly and it is receiving power, etc - so...

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